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[–] 44 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Mostly they're on so if I miss something, I can glance down and catch it before it disappears, or rewind and figure out what the actor just mumbled.

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    This is exactly why I always have them running. My wife hates it. My proposed solution: give me a smaller screen near the TV that shows the subtitles. That's my $1 million idea of the year.

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  • [–] 45 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    That idea has been used for a long time - in opera houses.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    That's the one good thing about the ultra-wide mlvie format vs a normal screen. You get some space the movie never occupies.

    In programs like Media Player Classic, you can easily shift the video up on the screen. Just push the movie up until it's touching the top edge, and suddenly there's a nice space for subtitles that don't overlap the movie!

    The phone idea and other stuff people have mentioned already do sound pretty neat for 16x9 media though.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    One feature I really like on Apple TV is if you hit the back button and go back 10 seconds, it will turn on subtitles for that 10 seconds. Unfortunately, Plex does not support that feature.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    Yes! I think that's such a great little feature. It feels so rare that a streaming platform does something that benefits the user experience that this felt particularly great to see implemented.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I had a free trial of apple tv and the only thing I liked was that if you rewinded it it would pop on the subtitles for that period of time and then turn them back off.

    There wasn't enough programming I liked for me to keep the subscription after the free trial but I thought it was a nice touch.

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    • [–] 31 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Subtitties (I mean titles) are the solution to the "explosion loud; dialogue quiet" problem.

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    • [–] 14 points 6 months ago

    Yeah. I've been watching Attack on Titan. I realize the Japanese voice actors sound objectively more badass but there's so much action I need to be able to see what's going on so I watch the dubbed version. When things are slow sometimes I multitask.

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    [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Lol rookies. If you can't do both you haven't been reading fan made subs from early 2000s for anime.

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