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Yes, but the answer they give to each individual (at least used to be) is "Nobody else has complained". Even when they've told 100 people that nobody else has complained - it just doesn't register with them that 100 people have complained. Perhaps it's changed now. :rolling:
 
The new DG (I think) of the BBC admitted to Radio Times that it was a problem and it would be addressed.
A year or two later ....
So he's just another politician basically :mad:
 
Trev said:
But lots of peeps complained about several BBC dramas.
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Not just BBC, either, any with background music are a pita. We have subtitles on ITV and C4 dramas too.

Hinterland was well recorded, though. Mind you, half off it was in Welsh. With English subtitles.

Why anyone thinks this is a BBC problem I have no clue, apart from the anti BBC and pro Sky Mudrock press banging on.
 
Mike0001 said:
Why anyone thinks this is a BBC problem I have no clue
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I agree it's not just a BBC problem, but they are the only ones AFAIK to have admitted such and said they will do something about it.
The hope was that they would then lead the way to clearer audio ... but they haven't led and no other channel is interested (probably because they are too focused on the young, advert gullible, demographic who aren't really paying attention anyway).

I think we'll have to accept that people like us, who actually watch and listen to a programme expecting to fully understand it, are just a vocal, but quite small, minority.
 
I have subtitles on by default these days, but it is a bit of a pain having to read and watch at the same time.
I actually watch some programmes twice, such as Sherlock. First with the subtitles on so I know the story, and then again typically a couple of days later with them off so I can concentrate on the visuals. This isn't often and usually where there is a lot of significant dialogue combined with fast/complex visuals. Otherwise I just go back and replay odd snippets that I missed the full content of.
 
Whilst I agree the sound balance on SS-GB was a bit lot biased in favour of the music and background - I could hear most of the dialogue. That doesn't mean the balance was correct for the majority of viewers. The only buzzing I could hear in episode 1 was in a scene which seemed to have a makeshift morgue and contained many portable arc lamps. I probably assumed at the time (and do now I've reviewed the episode) that the buzzing noise was meant to be there. The whole point of re-recording the vocals is so that there can be a clean source. Clearly, the majority of people think they got it badly wrong with SS-GB. I only think they got it wrong.
MikeSh said:
I have subtitles on by default these days, but it is a bit of a pain having to read and watch at the same time.
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I guess that you don't watch many programmes in the 9pm Saturday slot on BBC 4. It's a skill I've managed to develop, but can be a bugger when I'm tired.
 
EEPhil said:
I guess that you don't watch many programmes in the 9pm Saturday slot on BBC 4.
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You mean the scandi noir stuff? Yes, we watch a lot/most of them. But the pace is usually fairly leisurely, so there is generally time to read the writing and keep up with the video. I do occasionally have to skip back, but it's usually when I've looked away and missed reading something, and of course it doesn't matter how clear the dialogue is ... unless it's just "heydo" :)
 
Love Montalbano - some new ones later this year I believe.
And getting back to Interesting Items ... one of our cats is called Montalbano (and the other is Aurelio Zen).
 
gomezz said:
That a competent sound engineer could not hear the problem and suggest they needed to re-record the dialogue is worrying.
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Perhaps he did and was ignored by the director who thought "it can be sorted out in post" and then found it couldn't.
 
MikeSh said:
Aurelio Zen.
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I'll never forgive that fat controller of TV at the BBC (Danny Cohen) who cancelled the TV series "Zen" after just three episodes. Can't remember the exact excuse. Something about too many dramas (or police dramas) with men in the lead. Cancels Zen, commissions Death in Paradise - Doh!
 
Or blame the former chancellor for cutting the budget. He isn't fat any more.
 
The ability to produce caffeine has evolved separately in at least three distinct clades, coffee, tea and cocoa.

Two morphologically identical sea snakes, possibly three, exist as separate species. At first, they were thought to be one species.

The octopus eye evolved separately from ours, but is almost identical. In fact, it is superior to ours, in that the nerves are not above the retina but below it. No obscured sight, no blind spot!
 
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