tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post7149747460435501993..comments2024-03-25T19:18:14.047-04:00Comments on What's Alan Watching?: All TV mailbag: Emmy snubs, background music and moreAlan Sepinwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03388147774725646742noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-82460257713578135982008-08-06T16:45:00.000-04:002008-08-06T16:45:00.000-04:00An often missed thing about the dialogue volume is...An often missed thing about the dialogue volume is this:<BR/><BR/>If you only have two speakers, but your receiver/TV/amp is in 5.1 mode, then you're going to hear LF, RF, *and no Front Center -- and hence no dialogue.<BR/><BR/>Inline DVD player/recorders can cause this problem, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-89667659768148886722008-07-30T23:35:00.000-04:002008-07-30T23:35:00.000-04:00Not being able to hear the dialog for the music wa...Not being able to hear the dialog for the music was only a tiny part of why I dumped the Bionic Woman (prime example).<BR/><BR/>My brother adjusted my DVD player so that the sound came out of what speakers I actually have - and now the songs on my Enchanted DVD are loud enough to sing along with. Yay! (reverse engineering your suggestion - I can't afford the other way, but there may be a switch in MythTV to do it, who knows)<BR/><BR/>No matter what I do to my speakers, Patrick Dempsey will continue to mumble - usually at the most inopportune moments (the most romantic thing he said in season 2 was killed by my brother rewinding it three times to try to make out the words)<BR/><BR/>We finally have captions in MythTV, but they're only half there. So you kind of have to guess the rest... (it used to be I couldn't watch ER without captions)<BR/><BR/>Someone somewhere is selling a "complete" set of West Wing DVDs titled Seasons 1-7 on the website but showing a box labeled Seasons 1-6. If you still haven't bought the set (these were $99) watch out for this place. The actually complete set is titled<BR/>"The Complete Series Collection"<BR/>(and we still can't afford it (though *I* only want seasons 1 and 2 (and to see Posse Comitatus again - it's not on my tapes and Bravo hasn't played it in 2 and a half years))<BR/><BR/>More people would watch commercials if they weren't so darn loud (and funnier - I collect the good ones - have you seen Sarah Chalke's?)<BR/><BR/>Since I sleep to Grey's Anatomy, I cut the commercials - I can put cut marks around them so they won't play (love Myth) but they are still there, (just hidden) as long as I don't transcode (compress) the episodes.PamelaJayehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07999734611205222130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-59129014973911614662008-07-30T20:18:00.000-04:002008-07-30T20:18:00.000-04:00I'm confused. Why is Orson Welles brandishing a fi...I'm confused. Why is Orson Welles brandishing a firearm? That doesn't look like a still from *Touch of Evil*, and I don't recognize what movie it could have come from.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04897541740818276304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-25433203888419875952008-07-29T11:16:00.000-04:002008-07-29T11:16:00.000-04:00D'Onofrio is the reason I can't watch that show. I...D'Onofrio is the reason I can't watch that show. I've liked other stuff he's done, but for some reason when he's playing this character, he just really bugs me. "Overly mannered" might be an understatement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-81551144708108957092008-07-29T10:30:00.001-04:002008-07-29T10:30:00.001-04:00I don't think anybody cares about commercials enou...I don't think anybody cares about commercials enough to keep writing in about it the way a certain segment of my audience is constantly railing against the volume of background music drowning out the dialogue.Alan Sepinwallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03388147774725646742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-2292507010528614292008-07-29T10:28:00.000-04:002008-07-29T10:28:00.000-04:00Funny, I'd think your most common question would b...Funny, I'd think your most common question would be the closely related "Why are the commercials always so much louder than the show?"Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18351452512636422112noreply@blogger.com