Most newer tvs have something called DNR. Dynamic Noise Reduction.. but the ads are still made to pierce through all that anyway.. I am surprised that noone's made a good home solution to this yet.. like ad-blockers on computers..
Most films make use of a large number of sound channels for cinema watching. When they get adapted for TV and DVD/Bluray, the number of channels needs to be reduced, this means some sounds get merged over the top of others and can no longer be properly dynamically altered volume wise. This is why when characters are talking can sound ridiculously quiet but action sounds are ludicrously loud.
Yeah, I noticed this too long ago when I bought a new TV. Before that I had an old 16" one, and the volume on that one seemed more consistent. The newer ones I've had since that seem to have a bigger "range" of high vs low volume without changing the volume setting on the TV.
And yet, TV commercials always manage to get louder. Do they think screaming louder their commercials will incite me to buy their product ? Because, no ! It will NOT incite me to buy it.
i feel like Elementary the TV show is terrible for this, i installed surround sound speakers and still couldn't understand the actors at all, but the music blared over top.
My dad got one of those fancy remotes you could program to work with all the devices. Except it only worked on handful of features, so now we had 5 remotes.
@@toryniemann5124 You took the words out of my mouth! (Though, obviously, you'd have to change the volume to hear them, and that would involve trying at least three different remotes.)
Oh this is hilarious. My parents have no idea how deaf they have become. Consequently I can no longer sit in the same room as them when they are watching TV, but they think I'm being melodramatic when I leave the room
I haven't been able to be in the same room for _years_ now! I am currently in the upstairs on the _opposite corner of the house,_ and I can _still_ hear the TV until I close the door!!! :sob:
My mom: *Blast TV at 75 out of 100% volume.* Me: *Uses the same TV but the volume is 25 out of 100%.* My mom: “Turn that TV down it’s too loud!!! Why do you always listen to stuff at such a loud volume? I never do that!”
my father has already half blown out their tv's speakers. Any low sounds or bass makes it do horrible annoying rattle. Why Samsung would you make a TV that can go loud enough to destroy itself?
My father used to watch his TV so loud, I heard and understood everything that was said in the movies through two walls and three closed doors word for word.
You forgot the odd color settings when they accidently sat on the remote and didn't know how to set it back and didn't want to tell everyone and now it has been 6 years and they got used to it
I appreciate the fine balance you've managed to walk between cranking the volume high enough for humorous effect but not actually blowing out my eardrums for humorous effect, unlike those memes those darn kids these days make
I watch a lot of animated movies with the families and my stepfather always wants to know who did what voice. We have to constantly stop him from going on Wikipedia every five minutes.
The fancier streaming services these days actually have a service for this, you can usually click somewhere near the top of the screen while paused to see a list of all the current actors onscreen.
@@BertoxolusThePuzzled I noticed that with Amazon Prime the other day and it's also a great accessibility feature for autistic people like me cause for many live action movies I struggle to tell faces apart and having a list of all actors/characters currently on screen helps following the story.
And your father falling asleep 5 minutes into the movie and when he wakes up starts asking "who's that guy?", "Where are they going?", "Why they have to do that?"
Without the janky Interpolation effect to mess up the refresh rate, changing the image into blurry vaseline, you can't have a true "Parents' TV" experience. Accurate pastiche as always, ABK. 👏
I am suddenly reminded of the scene from The Naked Gun, where Sgt. Frank is called to a factory in the middle of the night, and a goon says, "I have a message from [bad guy]: Die, pig!" and shoots at him. Franks dodges, and responds, "I can't hear you! Don't fire the gun while you're talking!"
Relatable. Due to the childhood traumas of getting yelled for being too loud, no matter what i did, i now watch everything completely muted and try my best to hide my existence, even though i live alone. Thank you for the memories. Always a pleasure.
My dad worked swing shifts (sometimes nights, sometimes days), so he was often sleeping during the day and I had to be quiet. That might be why I now watch everything on my laptop with headphones.
@@geoffreycannon2197It's the reason why i also can't handle conflicts because being yelled at scares the sh*t out of me. Too broke to get any meaningful therapy so i've just resulted to live as much of a hermit as possibble. Life is decently okay.
Me googling "Why does my parents' TV picture look so terrible" when I stayed there for a while after my dad's heart surgery, finding out what interpolation was, and finding out how to turn it OFF for their TV
God, my parents rented a house for a week when they came up here for my nephew's birth and the interpolation(a term I just now learned) was so bad and I couldn't describe to them why it was so bad because they just didn't notice it at all.
The overly large channel logo and extreme cropping are absolutely spot on. Honestly it's like my dad's showing me his new dodgy fire stick he got off a mate at work.
My mother had this issue on her TV. I found a setting that levels the volume so she could watch movies and be able to hear dialog and not be blasted out of the room with DRAMATIC MUSIC AND SOUND EFFECTS.
Unbeknownst to me, somebody has lowered the brightness aaaalllllll the way down on my TV screen, but I assumed it was another problem with your parents' TV. I didn't even realize it until the next video played. P.S. The automatic fear I felt seeing the volume get turned all the way up to 72... truly terrifying. Happy Halloween!
This is certainly part of it. With my parents you always get this exchange: "Is that her that was in that TV series with that guy, the one who used to be a ship's captain," "What?" "You know. She was in that oil thing with JR and her who writes those books where they're always doing it in stables" "I have no idea." "This is really far fetched. They don't make movies like they used to."
I was deeply curious about how aggressive you'd go on the punchline sting. Absolute masterpiece. At my normal listening volume it clearly fulfilled the narrative purpose of "absurdly loud" without actually damaging my hearing. Bravo.
This is barely a joke. I've had this experience, more times than I can count. Only thing missing is how there should be two commercial breaks in the space of this 45 second video and even at low volume they'll blow your ear drums out.
Seriously! My parents can't "cut the cord" and go ad-free even though they can easily afford every single premium streaming subscription on the planet.
Ah yes, the wonders of "high dynamic range"... when the movie director, or editors, or whoever it is... decides "Hey, wouldn't it be really amazing if people are saying important and/or interesting things very quietly, and then BWAAAAHH!! Loud gunfire and explosions and scenes of horrific violation. And then more interesting mumbling and some very nice subtle music you'll miss very easily if you were trying to retain your hearing and sanity through the preceding sequence." Truly the mark of a very brainsmort genius visionary, I'm sure.
I have no idea how my elderly parents manage to set an option on their LCD TV that makes everything look supersaturated with enhanced edges like it's being funnelled through hot lava and yet think it somehow looks normal?
@@fredericapanon207 yeah they recently got eye health checks and are just short sighted. My mum is a retired doctor too. They just seem to have managed to get a weird setting on the TV and have become used to it.
nah, they don't walk through the door as it happens; they're already sitting in the room with you, and you're powerless to do anything to stop the scene from playing because you're all watching the film together. just got to sit there and try and ride it out, never taking your eyes off the screen, just staring dead ahead and feeling your tongue curl up into a marble inside your mouth in the hopes it might drop down your throat and fucking end you, anything, just to save you from the soul-rending embarrassment of watching a sex scene with your parents.
Everybody here commenting on the audio and I barely even noticed that compared to the raw nostalgia of terribly lighted and focused films pulled out of the bargain bin and made for 3AM television. You really nailed a central part of my childhood.
This is most movies nowadays regardless of TV, and there's a good reason for it. It's because of the way they shoot with tiny hidden microphones now, to get all sorts of good camera angles without worrying about the boom being in the shot. They can shoot more ambitious and more quickly. Unfortunately the microphones that are smaller aren't good at picking up the sound they way the big boom arm mics are. Also, the Dolby or DTS mix usually requires the dynamic range to set voices low in the downmix so the explosions etc aren't quiet in the theatre and it all sounds big. I really wish they remixed for a home release on a normal sound bar. I'm often having to use subtitles. Never had to do that on old movies. Tenet is the worst one of all time for this.
Your comment is very insightful. Thank you for taking your time to share that. I've loathed the rise of handheld cameras (AKA shaky cam), which allegedly is for "realism" but is mostly to speed time to film and reduce cost. But for sound I've been annoyed by having to raise / lower volume in the middle of TV and movies and knowing why that might be. Your comment explains it! Another sacrifice of art to cost. My wife has resorted to subtitles, which I find more distracting than shaky cam. I long for the day when AI can dynamically deliver media in the format each viewer wants. Until then, get off my lawn you newfangled asshole media people!
@@blah2blah65 Thanks. Agreed. They need to sort it out. It's happening a lot in TV shows too now like Netflix has (which are basically long movies turned into series format). I think it's not as bad with some of the latest movies, but there's a lot out there from the last decade or so that need a re-release.
It has absolutely nothing to do with what kind of microphone they're using, you can mix a track to be as quiet or as loud as you want no matter where it comes from. The problem is studios mix for 5.1 playback and then that gets incorrectly mixed down to stereo.
@@kyle8952 Wrong. I work with microphones. If they don't pick up the sound good in the first place, then no amount of mixing will help, unless you start using AI like The Beetles are currently doing so they can release old work that wasn't recorded well. The mix plays a big part in what you can hear, but badly recorded audio will sound much worse when it's amplified. Much of the time it isn't the mic itself, but where it is placed in the scene, and the type of field pattern the mic has which determines how it receives frequencies. This is why even the most expensive mic in the world is always placed as close as possible and pointed at mouths with a boom arm and big fluffy wind break over it. They need to be close to get a good recording of the human voice. With modern film making they have mics positioned in places where they aren't optimal, and much of the timbre in the voice drops out, especially in a dynamic scene with movement going on, if the actor isn't static. The mic may be boosted, but then it starts picking up background noise too. Studios often have to resort to things like compressors and modulation to recover what was lost, but they only go so far. Sometimes they have to re-record the voices in the studio afterwards because it's so bad, but they often avoid this because of all sorts of reasons, mainly because of money & schedules. And on top of this, there's the Dolby downmix where they set the levels even lower (as was originally commented on), which makes everything much worse.
Last Christmas I covertly turned off motion smoothing on my grandmother’s TV because she put on the Rankin-Bass claymation specials and there was no way in hell I could watch those with clumsy interpolation.
it's honestly kind of depressing being in the age range where we're young enough to notice motion smoothing and know how to turn it off, but also old enough to remember a time before it was even a thing, let alone the default. i'm hearing (horror) stories about people with kids or younger relatives who think that motion smoothing looks "normal" or "more realistic" and prefer to have it on… dreading the day when my kids or grandkids might come to visit and be like "oh, gramps accidentally turned off motion smoothing again"!
The TV needs to be at and/or elevation that not only forces us to look left or right, but high up in the wall and directly opposite the paper-thin curtains (in order to maximize the reflections and beams of light). There also needs to be a dog barking all the way through it and a radio playing from the kitchen too. I'm so glad that I don't live at home anymore.
"We control your television, we are in control of your sound and your 4:3 aspect ratio." From the failed third reboot of the Outer Limits. "Too real" they said.
You forgot the part where it's an exciting action scene that's very loud, causing your parents to come in and see what's on, and then it immediately cuts to a sex scene that goes on for entirely longer than is necessary.
I'm seriously impressed by how accurately ABK managed to convey the effect of the TV volume being too low/too high while the video us at the same set volume. Great job.
Spot on! And also I appreciate the beautiful Pan & Scan work, making sure the composition is always entirely ruined, while never allowing us to quite see the parts of the image we want... Perfect 😂
You nailed it. But today, we have videos from all the world available. And every freaking one of them has a different volume setting. Even videos in a series. One's so quite you have to turn speakers up all the way. The next video comes on and your subwoofer knocks you off your chair.
OK you've somehow replicated the experience of watching my parents TV, didn't realize others had the same experience. Particularly the bizarrely blurry image...
Why is this so true. My parents have these huge loudspeakers and they never want to use them because it would be too loud. So when we do use them, they're constantly changing the volume because of all the background noise that's too loud and the dialogue that is so damn quiet. I just want to enjoy the movie man... I don't want to care about to volume every few minutes :(
@petrosman Not sure but possibly it came from when parents told their kids if they didn't do something-like BE QUIET & they had 4-10 of them- & so they'd actually OBEY -esp. When DAD was comming home soon- All better be fricken O K. Bc that was worse than death-death was a piece of cake compared to Dad not being happy be he'd had eaten or whatever that families tlritual was-but that was usually similar w everyone decades ago- They wanted QUIET!!! SO it ingrained a "Consciencious of "above acceptable volume trauma"-with those generations- its a very real but un recognized disorder w anyone's parents who are usually WWiI or 50-60's kids After that everyone was too tired from both parents working to give a shi* how loud anything was cuz they could sleep thru it. And threatning-most punishments where you did what you shouldznot bc theyd abuse you-but they could if they decided to pick it up...then parents felt they lost their "trumph" ca now no one has the exact decible that a TV Is considered Too loud-it was lost w the Technology how we went to the moon I think
Some hifis and AV receivers (if that’s what the speakers are plugged into) have a dynamic range compression setting which can automate some of the volume hovering for you :)
Dude.. I specifically bought an old CRT from a garage sale a couple of years ago to watch regular daytime telly like this in the background while I work.. It's the only way to fly.. :)
It's true with any TV that has crappy small speakers which are unable to cope with a large variety of frequencies. Only good multi-way speaker design can give you clear conversations on top of explosions so you don't have to crank it all the way up and all the way down every time scene changes :)
The the lack of volume clarity and consistency is deffo a problem on older televisions but also sometimes programs themselves. Still, growing up watching increasingly larger old box TVs at my parents house are fun core memories of mine. One exception - my grandmother used to have a fantastic old school platform TV, where the TV itself was encased in one of those large wooden shells and had one of those little doors on the front just to the right of the screen that you opened that accessed the physical channel controls. Then, my uncle who lived with her replaced it with an extremely plain ultra-generic black box TV, rather average-sized, somewhere around the early 00s. What a bummer. The previous assembly was attractive and very retro awesome, the new tv was very boring and stuck out in the room full of retro furnishings like a sore thumb.
My dad had a big box 80s TV with wooden fascia around the outside, lasted all the way until 2010. Existed through most of my life. Seeing it go was like watching a piece of my childhood get thrown in the trash. Strangely enough he was not attached to it at all, he still remembers tiny black and white TV.
@@cattysplat aww what a bummer! Sorry it didn't last. Sucks losing our old items. Was it a super huge floor model that had like a wooden part that opened front ways in the front?? (I don't even know if I'm remembering this correctly) Because my friend's parents had this kind of TV that was ginormous and it had red, yellow, and blue round conical lights in front that shown towards the screen as part of the display. Curious if that's how your dad's was. Yeah I was jealous lol- it was the coolest TV I had ever seen to date.
Whenever I go to any of my relative’s houses (parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents when they were around) I always try to set their TV up properly with the correct aspect ratio, EQ, colour “correction”, the works. Yet every time I go back it’s messed up again. HOW?! They use it for one, maybe two, HDMI inputs for the set top box and the odd DVD. How does it re-set EVERY TIME?!?
Star Trek TOS totally did this, in particular with the starting and ending credits - the dialog is typically muted, but the brass orchestra makes sure everyone within a mile knows what you're watching...
I wonder how much of the problem is multi-channel audio (e.g. 5.1 surround) being put through 2 speakers, so the audio mix is technically fine but it’s all crammed into 2 speakers instead of 6 so there’s “distant” gunfire layered directly over the top of a whispered sentence!
I once watched something on my mom's tv and everything was extremely bright and yellow. She apparently didn't even notive anything wrong with the image. Brightness on Max, contrast on max, color warmth on max, idk what else kinda options there were but it was all messed up to hell and back.
God the interpolation thing is so real. Watching the Simpsons at my aunt's place once, they moved so grossly smooth I had to change the settings when no one was looking.
This feels like the kind of thing that would be played on a DVR by that one relative who has that one light switch with duct tape over it that nobody’s allowed to touch for undisclosed reasons.
Same. Also, I could go for quick buttons that adjust the HDMI audio offset. Every time it seems I've got it right the next thing we play is off time again. I seem to be the only one constantly bothered by the lip sync being early.
Needs to be stretched sideways in the wrong aspect ratio for that full "I'm watching cheap film on a low definition channel, situated in the nether regions of the electronic programme guide, in my parents house" vibe
I tried making a horror animation like this to make the jump scares more shocking and obnoxious but I ended up just changing the volume incessantly when showing my parents it lmao.
In the 2000s, I built a psychoacoustic-frequency-weighted AGC audio box for my TV. The volume always automagically remained constant even when the shows went small and whispery or the commercials went big and barging. I gave my TV away a year later. I haven't owned a TV since. My audio box is awesome but obsolete.
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This is insanely relatable. How are TVs so loud and yet so quiet? This doesn't happen with my laptop.
Modern sound balancing is decades ahead of the old televisions. Pun intended.
Most newer tvs have something called DNR. Dynamic Noise Reduction.. but the ads are still made to pierce through all that anyway.. I am surprised that noone's made a good home solution to this yet.. like ad-blockers on computers..
Most films make use of a large number of sound channels for cinema watching. When they get adapted for TV and DVD/Bluray, the number of channels needs to be reduced, this means some sounds get merged over the top of others and can no longer be properly dynamically altered volume wise. This is why when characters are talking can sound ridiculously quiet but action sounds are ludicrously loud.
Yeah, I noticed this too long ago when I bought a new TV. Before that I had an old 16" one, and the volume on that one seemed more consistent. The newer ones I've had since that seem to have a bigger "range" of high vs low volume without changing the volume setting on the TV.
And yet, TV commercials always manage to get louder. Do they think screaming louder their commercials will incite me to buy their product ? Because, no ! It will NOT incite me to buy it.
You know you have a good movie on your hands when you've adjusted the volume several dozen times throughout its 90 minute run time.
It's called the Christopher Nolan effect ;)
Unfortunately modern directors and writers don't consider it a film unless it's at least 2.5 hours long
Ah, like how often I had to turn the volume up and down while watching Eternals.
i feel like Elementary the TV show is terrible for this, i installed surround sound speakers and still couldn't understand the actors at all, but the music blared over top.
@@funcats1999
That's why watching with subtitles is a must, even if you are watching something in the language you speak.
Which of the 4 remotes changes the volume, and why is the VCR still on the tv stand.
I swear I see you everywhere - when you gonna play dungeon fighter online?
My dad got one of those fancy remotes you could program to work with all the devices. Except it only worked on handful of features, so now we had 5 remotes.
Can’t get rid of the VCR, the cable’s routed through it, we’d have redo the whole system if we remove any piece.
Lower the volume and suddenly TV next room starts playing.
@@toryniemann5124 You took the words out of my mouth! (Though, obviously, you'd have to change the volume to hear them, and that would involve trying at least three different remotes.)
Oh this is hilarious. My parents have no idea how deaf they have become. Consequently I can no longer sit in the same room as them when they are watching TV, but they think I'm being melodramatic when I leave the room
I haven't been able to be in the same room for _years_ now! I am currently in the upstairs on the _opposite corner of the house,_ and I can _still_ hear the TV until I close the door!!! :sob:
😂Brilliant ❤
My mom: *Blast TV at 75 out of 100% volume.*
Me: *Uses the same TV but the volume is 25 out of 100%.*
My mom: “Turn that TV down it’s too loud!!! Why do you always listen to stuff at such a loud volume? I never do that!”
my father has already half blown out their tv's speakers. Any low sounds or bass makes it do horrible annoying rattle. Why Samsung would you make a TV that can go loud enough to destroy itself?
My father used to watch his TV so loud, I heard and understood everything that was said in the movies through two walls and three closed doors word for word.
And when the movie ends the credits get squished to the side and sped up while commercials start.
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Side? Wow lucky, usually it's less than a quarter of the screen while it tells you what's on next, like every TV doesn't have built-in TV guides now
Honestly, when this became a thing I've started to lose hope in humanity
@@hoplax-gf4stIt’s been a thing for at least a decade.
You forgot the odd color settings when they accidently sat on the remote and didn't know how to set it back and didn't want to tell everyone and now it has been 6 years and they got used to it
And the VCR clock with its four flashing zeros because they never learnt how to set it. 00:00
They didn't know it wouldn't Blow up or break it-& not already the FBI if they put black tape over blinking #
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@@AtheistOrphani may die laughing 😂❤
Oh that's what happened to my mom. The image was like looking through a bright yellow lense and she didn't notice anything wrong apparently
"I own a number of codices, many of them Patagonian," cracked me up.
I appreciate the fine balance you've managed to walk between cranking the volume high enough for humorous effect but not actually blowing out my eardrums for humorous effect, unlike those memes those darn kids these days make
put some respect on the Taylor Swift screaming goat troll
YEET!!
Nice to see Generic Animated Sitcom is still running on its 56th season.
Animated????
@@supremebuffalo6322The ad that pops up midway through the video….
@@supremebuffalo6322it refers to the bumper that floated briefly in the lower right-hand corner ofbthe screen.
Series, surely? It's in the UK.
it went downhill after they had to replace half of the voices. those damn cops will investigate any horrific sex crimes these days.
Nobody walked in front of it and stopped to ask a question, can't be my parents.
Or loudly complained that they can't hear anything during an intense dialogue scene.
'what's going on who is this'
One of your parents should have been saying, "Wasn't he in that thing?"
Oh, that's....What's-His-Name!
I watch a lot of animated movies with the families and my stepfather always wants to know who did what voice. We have to constantly stop him from going on Wikipedia every five minutes.
The fancier streaming services these days actually have a service for this, you can usually click somewhere near the top of the screen while paused to see a list of all the current actors onscreen.
@@BertoxolusThePuzzled I noticed that with Amazon Prime the other day and it's also a great accessibility feature for autistic people like me cause for many live action movies I struggle to tell faces apart and having a list of all actors/characters currently on screen helps following the story.
And your father falling asleep 5 minutes into the movie and when he wakes up starts asking "who's that guy?", "Where are they going?", "Why they have to do that?"
Without the janky Interpolation effect to mess up the refresh rate, changing the image into blurry vaseline, you can't have a true "Parents' TV" experience.
Accurate pastiche as always, ABK. 👏
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whaaaat are you doing here lol
@@leophyte9663 Comme partir en vacances en Angleterre et y croiser son prof d'Otaku-Culture dans un super marché local 😂
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I like the way the picture got into focus as the volume went up, brilliant!
And if they happen to have a really big tv, every bump of the camera in old movies get amplified so much it feels like a found footage movie.
Pretty much every TV has a smoothing setting to prevent this, yet I see so many people still watching stuff as if it was recorded on a camcorder.
I am suddenly reminded of the scene from The Naked Gun, where Sgt. Frank is called to a factory in the middle of the night, and a goon says, "I have a message from [bad guy]: Die, pig!" and shoots at him.
Franks dodges, and responds, "I can't hear you! Don't fire the gun while you're talking!"
Great movies :D
Also Police Squad was great too, IIRC that came before The Naked Gun trilogy.
I remember that 😂those movies were fantastic 😂😂😂❤
@@kimmosaarinen2780It did
Relatable. Due to the childhood traumas of getting yelled for being too loud, no matter what i did, i now watch everything completely muted and try my best to hide my existence, even though i live alone.
Thank you for the memories. Always a pleasure.
relatable
Dude, stop it. You're making me nostalgic for my own long ago childhood.
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Same here. I don’t know if anyone ever really gets over that without serious help … or absolute cynical spite.
My dad worked swing shifts (sometimes nights, sometimes days), so he was often sleeping during the day and I had to be quiet. That might be why I now watch everything on my laptop with headphones.
@@geoffreycannon2197It's the reason why i also can't handle conflicts because being yelled at scares the sh*t out of me.
Too broke to get any meaningful therapy so i've just resulted to live as much of a hermit as possibble. Life is decently okay.
It's so rare we see returning characters from the ABK extended universe, let alone from two different sketches. Thank you for this.
Me googling "Why does my parents' TV picture look so terrible" when I stayed there for a while after my dad's heart surgery, finding out what interpolation was, and finding out how to turn it OFF for their TV
idk how they don't even notice, 5 seconds in with my aunt's tv and i wanted to rip my eyes out
God, my parents rented a house for a week when they came up here for my nephew's birth and the interpolation(a term I just now learned) was so bad and I couldn't describe to them why it was so bad because they just didn't notice it at all.
The overly large channel logo and extreme cropping are absolutely spot on. Honestly it's like my dad's showing me his new dodgy fire stick he got off a mate at work.
I would say that was hilarious if it wasn't so damn true.
Yes. And may I add so damn depressing. I am my mother‘s carer and this is my life. 😬😒
My mother had this issue on her TV. I found a setting that levels the volume so she could watch movies and be able to hear dialog and not be blasted out of the room with DRAMATIC MUSIC AND SOUND EFFECTS.
Au contraire mon ami. It's funny because it's true, as Homer J. put it.
@@Can0spam 😂😂😂😂😂
Unbeknownst to me, somebody has lowered the brightness aaaalllllll the way down on my TV screen, but I assumed it was another problem with your parents' TV. I didn't even realize it until the next video played.
P.S. The automatic fear I felt seeing the volume get turned all the way up to 72... truly terrifying. Happy Halloween!
This is certainly part of it. With my parents you always get this exchange:
"Is that her that was in that TV series with that guy, the one who used to be a ship's captain,"
"What?"
"You know. She was in that oil thing with JR and her who writes those books where they're always doing it in stables"
"I have no idea."
"This is really far fetched. They don't make movies like they used to."
I was deeply curious about how aggressive you'd go on the punchline sting. Absolute masterpiece. At my normal listening volume it clearly fulfilled the narrative purpose of "absurdly loud" without actually damaging my hearing. Bravo.
And then advertisements with another 50% louder volume shows up
You are the master of observing things that not many think about but we all recognise when we see them.
Woah, didn't expect to see you here. Looks like I'm the only one who noticed lol
This is barely a joke. I've had this experience, more times than I can count. Only thing missing is how there should be two commercial breaks in the space of this 45 second video and even at low volume they'll blow your ear drums out.
It'll be like
"Where is the monster?"
"It's... here..." *fades to black*
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Seriously! My parents can't "cut the cord" and go ad-free even though they can easily afford every single premium streaming subscription on the planet.
Hate when I go to pick up the remote to turn off some weird setting and my parents are all like "Not so fast! I think I'll be taking that."
Mine get a headache by me bringing up the menu alone.
Ah yes, the wonders of "high dynamic range"... when the movie director, or editors, or whoever it is... decides "Hey, wouldn't it be really amazing if people are saying important and/or interesting things very quietly, and then BWAAAAHH!! Loud gunfire and explosions and scenes of horrific violation. And then more interesting mumbling and some very nice subtle music you'll miss very easily if you were trying to retain your hearing and sanity through the preceding sequence." Truly the mark of a very brainsmort genius visionary, I'm sure.
Just off to the shops to get some batteries for the 27 remotes we have about the sitting room.
They bought a Universal remote, realized they had no idea how to program it, but also didn't return it or throw it away 👍
I have no idea how my elderly parents manage to set an option on their LCD TV that makes everything look supersaturated with enhanced edges like it's being funnelled through hot lava and yet think it somehow looks normal?
@repletereplete8002, have they had their checked for cataracts... or glaucoma. Either could be affecting their eyesight.
@@fredericapanon207 yeah they recently got eye health checks and are just short sighted. My mum is a retired doctor too. They just seem to have managed to get a weird setting on the TV and have become used to it.
You forgot the single surprise sex scene in the movie that inevitably plays when your parents walk through the door
Ahhhh, no. I don't need to see ABK and She-ABK doing the nasty.
nah, they don't walk through the door as it happens; they're already sitting in the room with you, and you're powerless to do anything to stop the scene from playing because you're all watching the film together. just got to sit there and try and ride it out, never taking your eyes off the screen, just staring dead ahead and feeling your tongue curl up into a marble inside your mouth in the hopes it might drop down your throat and fucking end you, anything, just to save you from the soul-rending embarrassment of watching a sex scene with your parents.
It may not be the ABK we need, but it is the one we deserve.
@@thanesgames9685 I can't argue with that; more's the pity.
Hurrrrrgh... EVERY. TIME!
The "edited for TV" pan and scan is a nice touch.
If it were my parents TV it would be mrs Marple or Poirot playing. So you nailed that it would be something brittish, ABK.
My mother has managed to find a channel that perpetually shows Columbo.
And in the case of emergency, she has the full collection on DVD.
Don't forget Father Brown and Agatha Raisin.
ah, suchet poirot or ustinov poirot?
@@soupalex Suchet.
@@soupalex For me it's David Suchet as Hercule Poirot.
Everybody here commenting on the audio and I barely even noticed that compared to the raw nostalgia of terribly lighted and focused films pulled out of the bargain bin and made for 3AM television. You really nailed a central part of my childhood.
my dad says the protagonist Alex Heroman was his icon during his 30’s
his name is Professor Mac Guffin
This is most movies nowadays regardless of TV, and there's a good reason for it. It's because of the way they shoot with tiny hidden microphones now, to get all sorts of good camera angles without worrying about the boom being in the shot. They can shoot more ambitious and more quickly. Unfortunately the microphones that are smaller aren't good at picking up the sound they way the big boom arm mics are. Also, the Dolby or DTS mix usually requires the dynamic range to set voices low in the downmix so the explosions etc aren't quiet in the theatre and it all sounds big. I really wish they remixed for a home release on a normal sound bar. I'm often having to use subtitles. Never had to do that on old movies. Tenet is the worst one of all time for this.
Your comment is very insightful. Thank you for taking your time to share that. I've loathed the rise of handheld cameras (AKA shaky cam), which allegedly is for "realism" but is mostly to speed time to film and reduce cost. But for sound I've been annoyed by having to raise / lower volume in the middle of TV and movies and knowing why that might be. Your comment explains it! Another sacrifice of art to cost. My wife has resorted to subtitles, which I find more distracting than shaky cam. I long for the day when AI can dynamically deliver media in the format each viewer wants. Until then, get off my lawn you newfangled asshole media people!
@@blah2blah65 Thanks. Agreed. They need to sort it out. It's happening a lot in TV shows too now like Netflix has (which are basically long movies turned into series format). I think it's not as bad with some of the latest movies, but there's a lot out there from the last decade or so that need a re-release.
It has absolutely nothing to do with what kind of microphone they're using, you can mix a track to be as quiet or as loud as you want no matter where it comes from. The problem is studios mix for 5.1 playback and then that gets incorrectly mixed down to stereo.
@@kyle8952 Wrong. I work with microphones. If they don't pick up the sound good in the first place, then no amount of mixing will help, unless you start using AI like The Beetles are currently doing so they can release old work that wasn't recorded well. The mix plays a big part in what you can hear, but badly recorded audio will sound much worse when it's amplified. Much of the time it isn't the mic itself, but where it is placed in the scene, and the type of field pattern the mic has which determines how it receives frequencies. This is why even the most expensive mic in the world is always placed as close as possible and pointed at mouths with a boom arm and big fluffy wind break over it. They need to be close to get a good recording of the human voice. With modern film making they have mics positioned in places where they aren't optimal, and much of the timbre in the voice drops out, especially in a dynamic scene with movement going on, if the actor isn't static. The mic may be boosted, but then it starts picking up background noise too. Studios often have to resort to things like compressors and modulation to recover what was lost, but they only go so far. Sometimes they have to re-record the voices in the studio afterwards because it's so bad, but they often avoid this because of all sorts of reasons, mainly because of money & schedules. And on top of this, there's the Dolby downmix where they set the levels even lower (as was originally commented on), which makes everything much worse.
Yep. I haven't actually known what's happening in a plot-heavy movie without subtitles for many years now.
I need more Patagonian Codex lore, and the backstory of these two. I'm so invested now. Damn these audio difficulties
"Who is that?"
"Where are they going?"
"What are they doing?"
Last Christmas I covertly turned off motion smoothing on my grandmother’s TV because she put on the Rankin-Bass claymation specials and there was no way in hell I could watch those with clumsy interpolation.
I gave you my heart
@@TheThursty100👌
it's honestly kind of depressing being in the age range where we're young enough to notice motion smoothing and know how to turn it off, but also old enough to remember a time before it was even a thing, let alone the default. i'm hearing (horror) stories about people with kids or younger relatives who think that motion smoothing looks "normal" or "more realistic" and prefer to have it on… dreading the day when my kids or grandkids might come to visit and be like "oh, gramps accidentally turned off motion smoothing again"!
Yeah, those things don’t know how to handle the “onion skin” frames in stop motion at all.
@@soupalexthis is already happening with my acquaintances who are 5-10 years younger than me 😱
The TV needs to be at and/or elevation that not only forces us to look left or right, but high up in the wall and directly opposite the paper-thin curtains (in order to maximize the reflections and beams of light). There also needs to be a dog barking all the way through it and a radio playing from the kitchen too.
I'm so glad that I don't live at home anymore.
Don't forget smoke detector beeping a Low Battery warning!
"We control your television, we are in control of your sound and your 4:3 aspect ratio."
From the failed third reboot of the Outer Limits. "Too real" they said.
I’ve never seen anyone match this camera quality and lighting style outside of a primary source, it’s amazing.
Best yet. Just got back from the outlaws and that was the experience except for added inane chattering about us remembering what he was in.
You forgot the part where it's an exciting action scene that's very loud, causing your parents to come in and see what's on, and then it immediately cuts to a sex scene that goes on for entirely longer than is necessary.
I'm seriously impressed by how accurately ABK managed to convey the effect of the TV volume being too low/too high while the video us at the same set volume. Great job.
...... I shouldn't have been wearing headphones at that last bit.
I saw the volume slider on the "TV", so I was already cranking my laptop volume down!
Pardon?
Spot on! And also I appreciate the beautiful Pan & Scan work, making sure the composition is always entirely ruined, while never allowing us to quite see the parts of the image we want... Perfect 😂
You nailed it. But today, we have videos from all the world available. And every freaking one of them has a different volume setting. Even videos in a series. One's so quite you have to turn speakers up all the way. The next video comes on and your subwoofer knocks you off your chair.
Meanwhile mums shouting at me to make myself a plate of roast to take home with me.
OK you've somehow replicated the experience of watching my parents TV, didn't realize others had the same experience. Particularly the bizarrely blurry image...
Why is this so true. My parents have these huge loudspeakers and they never want to use them because it would be too loud. So when we do use them, they're constantly changing the volume because of all the background noise that's too loud and the dialogue that is so damn quiet. I just want to enjoy the movie man... I don't want to care about to volume every few minutes :(
@petrosman
Not sure but possibly it came from when parents told their kids if they didn't do something-like BE QUIET & they had 4-10 of them- & so they'd actually OBEY -esp. When DAD was comming home soon-
All better be fricken O K. Bc that was worse than death-death was a piece of cake compared to Dad not being happy be he'd had eaten or whatever that families tlritual was-but that was usually similar w everyone decades ago-
They wanted QUIET!!!
SO it ingrained a "Consciencious of "above acceptable volume trauma"-with those generations- its a very real but un recognized disorder w anyone's parents who are
usually WWiI or 50-60's kids
After that everyone was too tired from both parents working to give a shi* how loud anything was cuz they could sleep thru it. And threatning-most punishments where you did what you shouldznot bc theyd abuse you-but they could if they decided to pick it up...then parents felt they lost their "trumph" ca now no one has the exact decible that a TV Is considered Too loud-it was lost w the Technology how we went to the moon I think
Some hifis and AV receivers (if that’s what the speakers are plugged into) have a dynamic range compression setting which can automate some of the volume hovering for you :)
@kaitlyn__L yeah, we have that, but with those it can get loud sometimes
The definitive at home movie on TV experience
The motion blur is the most accurate part
How is this so relatable. My dad will insist there is nothing wrong with the tv, and they don’t need a new one.
The pan and scan, the uncontrollable ambient volume, the lags, wait... this is MY television!
Then there's the manual aspect ratio changing
"I want to use all of the screen"
Dude.. I specifically bought an old CRT from a garage sale a couple of years ago to watch regular daytime telly like this in the background while I work.. It's the only way to fly.. :)
It's true with any TV that has crappy small speakers which are unable to cope with a large variety of frequencies.
Only good multi-way speaker design can give you clear conversations on top of explosions so you don't have to crank it all the way up and all the way down every time scene changes :)
Alasdair never fails to clap my cheeks
He never misses!
The absolute legend!
Um, phrasing
@@no1fanofthepalsAlasdair carrying becket-king
come again
And then that one second of nudity freezes on the screen when they walk into the room
This is spot on. The sentence "Mum, it's just a loud bit!" has been said a lot, throughout my whole life. 😂
Perfectly captures the vibe of a filler action movie running on a satellite or cable tv networks.
oh my god, this is so perfect. huge props for getting the tone and effects just right
The the lack of volume clarity and consistency is deffo a problem on older televisions but also sometimes programs themselves. Still, growing up watching increasingly larger old box TVs at my parents house are fun core memories of mine.
One exception - my grandmother used to have a fantastic old school platform TV, where the TV itself was encased in one of those large wooden shells and had one of those little doors on the front just to the right of the screen that you opened that accessed the physical channel controls. Then, my uncle who lived with her replaced it with an extremely plain ultra-generic black box TV, rather average-sized, somewhere around the early 00s. What a bummer. The previous assembly was attractive and very retro awesome, the new tv was very boring and stuck out in the room full of retro furnishings like a sore thumb.
My dad had a big box 80s TV with wooden fascia around the outside, lasted all the way until 2010. Existed through most of my life. Seeing it go was like watching a piece of my childhood get thrown in the trash. Strangely enough he was not attached to it at all, he still remembers tiny black and white TV.
@@cattysplat aww what a bummer! Sorry it didn't last. Sucks losing our old items. Was it a super huge floor model that had like a wooden part that opened front ways in the front?? (I don't even know if I'm remembering this correctly) Because my friend's parents had this kind of TV that was ginormous and it had red, yellow, and blue round conical lights in front that shown towards the screen as part of the display. Curious if that's how your dad's was. Yeah I was jealous lol- it was the coolest TV I had ever seen to date.
I didn’t know that folks at other countries also suffered the same way I did 😂
Whenever I go to any of my relative’s houses (parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents when they were around) I always try to set their TV up properly with the correct aspect ratio, EQ, colour “correction”, the works. Yet every time I go back it’s messed up again. HOW?! They use it for one, maybe two, HDMI inputs for the set top box and the odd DVD. How does it re-set EVERY TIME?!?
Oh man I wondered I hadn't seen any of his videos in a while-hes always fantastic in his presentations & impressions/imitations etc
Star Trek TOS totally did this, in particular with the starting and ending credits - the dialog is typically muted, but the brass orchestra makes sure everyone within a mile knows what you're watching...
I love how the viewer is already hook on the plot, it just volume, also dont forget those damm commercials that last for what feels like 2 hours.
It's crazy how we all experienced the same ambiance for these TV shows and movies
I wonder how much of the problem is multi-channel audio (e.g. 5.1 surround) being put through 2 speakers, so the audio mix is technically fine but it’s all crammed into 2 speakers instead of 6 so there’s “distant” gunfire layered directly over the top of a whispered sentence!
There's some of that, but it's usually just a matter of TV speakers/soundbars being garbage.
I once watched something on my mom's tv and everything was extremely bright and yellow. She apparently didn't even notive anything wrong with the image. Brightness on Max, contrast on max, color warmth on max, idk what else kinda options there were but it was all messed up to hell and back.
Exactly. Watching TV at night, have to keep the volume somewhat low and then a commercial comes on and is louder than a 21 gun salute.
I have a small cathode ray tube telly in the bedroom. It has it's own microfibre cloth to remove the static induced dust every 14 minutes.
But that saves you dusting in the other places!
My elderly parent died from excessive sound pressure due to a loud Flomax commercial while watching Blue Bloods on CBS.
God the interpolation thing is so real. Watching the Simpsons at my aunt's place once, they moved so grossly smooth I had to change the settings when no one was looking.
This feels like the kind of thing that would be played on a DVR by that one relative who has that one light switch with duct tape over it that nobody’s allowed to touch for undisclosed reasons.
This is why they have an Academy Award for sound mixing
How do you manage to make your videos so accurate?!
"I don't need to get a hearing aid, you just need to speak louder"
Old people listens to TV at 100% volume
Also old people "turn that music down I can't hear the telly"
Don't forget about the sudden ear-blasting ad with a guy screaming like his life depends on it.
I must say it was great seeing Blackthorne again. A true gentleman adventurer is always getting up to something.
Blackthorne voice is now one of my villain goals.
Wish me luck.
And then comes the ad-break, which is even LOUDER
I would do the same thing turning the brightness up and down for different scenes, if it wasn't so hard to sort that on the tv remote
Same.
Also, I could go for quick buttons that adjust the HDMI audio offset. Every time it seems I've got it right the next thing we play is off time again. I seem to be the only one constantly bothered by the lip sync being early.
The subtitles on this one have their own jokes. "nolanesque mumbling" was amazing!
My parent's TV is distressingly crisp, like higher res than real life. The volume thing is so accurate it hurts.
I can't watch TV when I'm at my parents' house. If I have the volume anywhere above 16, mum starts saying "It's very loud."
Needs to be stretched sideways in the wrong aspect ratio for that full "I'm watching cheap film on a low definition channel, situated in the nether regions of the electronic programme guide, in my parents house" vibe
I tried making a horror animation like this to make the jump scares more shocking and obnoxious but I ended up just changing the volume incessantly when showing my parents it lmao.
Only a true villain would make such flagrant and unforgivable use of ‘codices’.
I can confirm that this is, in fact, what it's like watching any movie on ABK's parents' TV.
I noticed that excellent step out of the shadows.
"I own many codices" Quite a boast!
I live in a place with thin walls, not my parents place, but I feel this to my core.
😂😂😂😂😂 100% accurate! Good to see you doing so well Alasdair - I remember you from LFS (I was 174). 🎉😂
Hello!
@@ABeckettKing 👋🏻👌🏻
In the 2000s, I built a psychoacoustic-frequency-weighted AGC audio box for my TV. The volume always automagically remained constant even when the shows went small and whispery or the commercials went big and barging.
I gave my TV away a year later. I haven't owned a TV since. My audio box is awesome but obsolete.
My ears have gotten painfully sensitive since plasma TVs and tablets were invented😂
Nice lighting in this, top work
Also accurate for podcasters who don't check their sound.