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Interesting, but this technology seems really scary, imagine being interrogated with a machine that translates thoughts into words, now try not to think of a sandwich.

Lol no, if you only have budget for one mix it should be the one that preserves the most information, if “90%” of the viewers don’t care about the art form they are watching then they don’t have the right to ruin it for the people who do care.

As for music there’s the opposite problem, there’s a problem in the music industry where most modern music is an incomprehensible mess thanks to the loudness wars, where modern music has zero dynamics, high distortion, lack of tangibility and overall boring.

If you listen to a 70s or early 80s recording you will notice that together with greater dynamics, you have better sound quality, definition and tangibility, than modern trash. Independently of what system you listen it on.

But a good mix will translate well no matter what system you have, it will sound good either on a 10000 dollars HiFi system or on some cheap pair of computer speakers.

Seriously tho, personally I don’t understand people who can tolerate watching anything with on a TVs built in speaker, I rather watch 480p with good sound than 4k on a TV speaker, but that’s me.

If I can’t afford a reasonable pair of speakers then a 20 bucks pair of wired headphones can have excellent sound quality. So there’s really no reason to defend a nerfed mix.

With this, I’m not saying that some modern shows don’t exaggerate and that their levels are past ridiculous.

Well, it’s now cinema is supposed to be.

Ideally they could make two mixes, one for serious viewing and good systems and another for bringe watching or bad speakers. But since that would cost more money and isn’t done, a good dynamic mix is preferable because you can always throw a compressor and some limiting to a dynamic mix, but you can’t recover information after it’s lost. And as a film and series enjoyer I don’t want my experience to be nerfed.

As for ads, I have no idea? I haven’t watched an ad since I got internet many years ago. Idk how you’re getting your media, maybe get an adblocker or use torrents?

Because cinema is supposed to be immersive, it’s supposed to take the audience into the action, it’s supposed to make you feel like you’re there. Dynamics play an important part of this.

It’s not enough to acknowledge that there has been an explosion or a monster has screeched, it’s important that the viewer feels in danger, like the monster can actually harm the viewer. To get that adrenaline pumping.

Ofc when your levels are ridiculously exaggerated and you stretch over to the volume control all the time, then the immersion is broken because instead of watching the film you’re too busy riding the fader.

You don’t hate dynamic range, you hate bad mixes, two different things, without dynamics audio sounds like shit. An explosion is supposed to be louder than talking speech.

It’s just not supposed to try to mimic the absurdity of an actual explosion, to the point of discomfort.

Also, like said before in the parent comment, most consumer systems don’t even even have the dynamics to reproduce it without distortion (or damage the woofers).

Technically speaking it’s very easy to implement, it’s just a compressor, oldest thing in audio after maybe the EQ.

VLC has a compressor under effects, if you’re using Linux you can add effects to pulse or pipewire really easy too.

Oh well. I’m just glad I can access all my files on NTFS

Shhh! Don’t give them ideas…

You’re responsible for the technology you create.

So if I create a knife I’m responsible if someone uses it for murder?

Maybe I should implement a camera on the knife that records your kitchen 24/7 to make sure the knife wont be used for murder, is that OK with you?

Unionize workers in Microsoft.

If you “unionize” microsoft and keep windows non-free software, the employees get better wages, apart from that the users still get spied upon, and the means of production (windows source code) still under ownership of a small group of people, (and just like any other operating system or knife, can) still used for nefarious purposes.

Even if the workers at the microsoft commune decide to made windows non-spyware anymore, there is still no way to actually be sure since there’s no way to verify it.

Also, proprietary software isn’t only a prime example of private ownership of the means of production, but also a prime example of artificial scarcity.

As long as it’s “Free Software” instead of “Free people” you’re playing on the side of the tech oligarchy.

Free software is a requirement for free people, if you don’t understand that, then you really have no understanding of how technology works, of how people work and how freedom works.

I recommend reading the following article: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html

Your OS doesn’t, put the messaging apps that your friends/family/coworkers use do.

And no, you can’t convince them to switch messager, I tried.