Asklemmy

43757 readers

1721 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Why did old american movies sound so different? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by jediToru@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

23 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Whenever I watch old movies the characters always have a different tone than they have now. It seems to have changed somewhere from the 2000s. Is it just me or did something change?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Grishaix@feddit.de 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

tl;dr: Because of technological advancements in recording equipment.

Maybe this Helps: Why we all need subtitles now

[–] Azeon@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

Here I am thinking I was the only one with this problem. I'm at the office and can't watch the video itself, but I definitely will tonight. Thank you for sharing!

[–] scoredseqrica@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Anakin Padme meme.jpg:

I’ve invented new mic tech!

You’re going to use that to make audio more intelligible right?

…

Right?!

[–] animist@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

This was awesome, thank you