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this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2026
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Oh of course 
Sorry for wasting your time. Now, just one more thing 
See, I bought a soundbar myself, but the missus likes to watch tv when its late. We live in an apartment, you see. And She'll turn off the sound bar, and instead use a feature called closed captioning, because she can't quite make out what people are saying. Puts the dialog at the bottom of the screen for the hard-of-hearing. 
Are you using closed captioning?
Sometimes i put subtitles on, yeah, helps me stay focused on the dialog
a sound bar is definitely better but it needs a subwoofer to be truly worth it IMO.
I'm not into puppy play so i doneed a sub or a dom woofer
I got one, but surprisingly the built in speakers were actually better, but you mmv. Basically if you aren't pissed off by your tv speaker sound, don't bother.
I got these big ass polk audio speakers from the 80's that have a circuit on top with a small circuit board, big caps, a few other things all connected to nice tweeters. Like they're physically on top of the speakers you can see them in my living room.
The one solder joint went bad and one of the tweeters stopped working. I troubleshooted & fixed it by using hand drawn schematics from the manufacturer.
The speakers themselves are heavy af. I bought them off a dude who fixed them up and put some new caps in. He had a barn on his property that seemed like all he did in it was fix up and flip speakers.
This is all hooked up to a bangin stereo connected to my TV but I really get mileage out of vinyl. We have a lot of records as a household.
Audio can be fun if you want it to be so.
Audio can be fun if you want it to be so.
I don't, though.
If you don't have a menu of pointless picture adjustments, what's your boyfriend supposed to do all evening?
But doctor i am the boyfriend
Eh, my TV sounds like shit, my cheap sound bar sounds pretty good. The TV is cheap af, but it looks really nice. I have a used surround receiver that I've only every hooked up cheap stereo speakers to and a cheap sub too. I think it's pretty damn great.
Acceptable
120 Hz refresh rate on movies and shows is for animals
Is that what it is when my buddy's tv looks "too real" and makes us all uncomfortable?
They do interlacing, which for cheaper TVs just means playing the frame twice (~60fps) and the more expensive ones do between frames using a linear interpolation thing. So yeah, when you have action mode/motion smoothing on your TV is creating at least half the frames you see.
Maybe okay for sports? For everything else it sucks tho.
Makes me feel motion sick watching 2 people talking in a room with nothing else going on. unwatchable
I was worried based off the original post that you might be living like that.
fix your dumbass friend's tv too.
Appreciate the concern
Sometimes I play music on my tv and the bass makes a gross noise but that’s my fault for playing music on a tv and not something made for that.
Fair, I've a few Bluetooth speakers and headphones around for that
I got a cheap soundbar because my room and my arrangement would not have me feel the difference with a proper 7.1.2 system. Psychoacoustics on modern soundbars are cool.
Psychoacoustics on modern soundbars are cool.
Haha, sounds good to me!
I have no idea what this means
Basically: they do not have big enough and plenty enough speakers, so they're gonna play sound in a special way so that it tricks you into hearing it in better quality than it's supposed to be. Good enough for this room. In a better room I'd be getting a proper speaker system.
My ex girlfriend used to get so upset with me when I'd mess around with the subtitles on vlc player and I was so set in my ways about watching all anime subbed. I've grown a lot since then.
Never watched anime but i like watching things in different languages as well
I do yellow subs because the masters did yellow subs.
You bought an expensive proprietary speaker system that requires an app to work
I bought a cheap 90s stereo from a thrift shop that's lasted two decades
We are not the same 
Acceptable
The picture adjustment, yeah that you can get away with not touching and it’ll be fine. The internal speakers, though, yeah I can tell the difference between those and an external set. And it’s not like I’m using some audiophile set, it was the cheapies from Costco.