Muttering and loud background noise or music.
Sometimes, I have to replay a portion of the dialogue several times just to figure out what a character said.
I went to an audiologist for this very problem. I had just been turning the TV up and up and up and still couldn’t understand a damn thing anyone was saying.
The audiologist told me to adjust my TV so that the bass was all the way down and the treble was all the way up.
It changed my family’s life. I’d been blowing everyone away with volume and pausing the show every fifteen minutes to ask, “What’d he say?” Now the volume is reasonable and even my hubby says that he can hear things better.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who has a problem with what is being said on tv shows these days. I despise the way they increase the volume for music or special effects sounds, then drop the volume when the characters speak. I find I have to turn the volume up to hear what they’re saying, and then quickly turn it down again when there’s a noise or music. They do this with movies too, and it’s frustrating as all hell. I’ve started watching programs and movies with the subtitles on regularly.
I can't watch Sportscenter anymore because they have to have music playing over everything now.
I'm having to do that more and more on my favorite TV programs I record.