I think dialogue enhancement can be brilliant, but TV manufacturers don't know better than Hollywood directors

Ultimately, Samsung, Sony and LG all need to know that they don't know better than some of the Academy Award-winning sound mixers behind some of our favourite films.
If somebody has real difficulty hearing dialogue so, “dialogue enhancement” needs to be turned up high, I don’t think they are going to be greatly concerned with “director’s intent”.
 
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This is a nice development. I could see myself using it in the bedroom, where I want to keep the volume low but still hear the dialogue. I'm not going to use it in my main film watching room.
 

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" respecting the creative intent of the artists behind the movie."
Annoyingly, the 'creative intent of the artist' seems to often be for me to turn the volume up and down throughout the movie.

It seems like a fairly common complaint, even from those with normal hearing, that dialog is sometimes unintelligible while the action scenes are overly loud. If they've mixed it that way then they did it wrong and I feel no need to 'respect' that.

If my car seat is unconfutable but can be improved by adding a lumbar support should I 'respect' the designer and stay uncomfortable?

"but not for respecting the creative's intent"
Does that extend to screen size? Sound system? Are you disrespecting them if you don't have a proper THX approved sound system and a screen above a certain size? What if you just use the speakers in the TV for the sound? Blackout curtains a requirement?
 
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If somebody has real difficulty hearing dialogue so, “dialogue enhancement” needs to be turned up high, I don’t think they are going to be greatly concerned with “director’s intent”.
Great point, I'd love for someone to ask a director if they would prefer that the viewer missed what the characters were saying so that they didn't mess with their intent.
 

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The problem with being involved in the making of the movie is that those involved know what the actors are doing and saying. They don't encounter the lack of clarity that comes from hearing something for the first time and only once, and in a less than clear environment. I think it perhaps strange to suggest that Hollywood directors and sound mixers always get things right. There are many many cases where they do not, and that includes with the balance of dialogue and other sounds. The most recent movie I watched was Emmy nominated for its sound mixing and I still found that the dialogue was muddled with music and explosions.
 

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