cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/nonpolitical_comics/p/1657114/mr-lovenstein-volume

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
      91·
      4 months ago

      If you’re watching movies mixed for surround sound on the stereo speakers on your TV, you’re gonna have a bad time

      I would know, I do it all the time

      • 87Six@lemmy.zip
        73·
        4 months ago

        I’m glad I’m no avid of movies. Wasn’t enough that TV’s are so locked down and spying on me, now I’d have to buy extra stuff too… Screw that noise…

        • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
          72·
          4 months ago

          Home theatre systems have been a thing for decades. Soundbars are the cheaper and simpler new alternative.

          Alternatively you can just use a media player thay compresses audio. This is easier if you use a PC connected to your TV but I’m sure some TV apps allow it too.

        • Corhen@lemmy.world
          4·
          4 months ago

          you’ve had to buy ‘extra stuff’ for decades. The TV is only half the equation.

          Its buying a DSLR camera, and being upset it didn’t come with the best lens. It comes with one that works, but you arn’t going to have good results.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      51·
      4 months ago

      Yes. TV speakers have gotten incredibly cheap and low quality. It’s audio/visual. You’ve invested a fair chunk into half of the experience with a TV, but ignored the other half.

        • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          I think they were better at least, and mostly because there was space for them. In a CRT you had enough volume inside the TV to have even just little 2" drivers, now with ultrathins it’s hard to fit any even moderately okay speaker in there.

      • 87Six@lemmy.zip
        24·
        4 months ago

        I didn’t, really…I can barely afford a 1080p TV. I’m not buying a sound bar, screw that, rather do something else.

    • Honytawk@feddit.nl
      2·
      4 months ago

      No, but the solution is different if you were to have a sound bar or are using the build-in speakers.

    • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
      32·
      4 months ago

      Yes, because there’s a limit to how thin a screen can be and still fit decent speakers, and that sailed by 20 years ago.