[Annoy] What's something small that really annoys you?

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#3008920 12-Dec-2022 12:43

I have an HDR/Dolby Vision-enabled 4K TV, with HDR/Dolby Vision devices (Chromecast with Google TV 4K HDR and Amazon Fire TV 4K Max). And yet, the damn directors decide to make pictures so dark you can barely see anything on the screen.

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#3008925 12-Dec-2022 12:55

The last couple of Harry Potters were absurdly dark, to the point where I checked the calibration of my projector after playing one of them (it was still correct). I suspect that someone at the studio went "most people have the brightness set too high, so let's over-darken the home release to account for it".

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#3008939 12-Dec-2022 12:57

Same people who make the dialogue inaudible / unintelligible I guess.

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#3008941 12-Dec-2022 12:59

Apparently sound technicians frequently get overruled, being told "we'll redub it later", which then never happens because the people reviewing the audio are intimately familiar with the script and have the benefit of knowing exactly what everyone's supposed to be saying, and therefore they don't realise how inaudible it all is.

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#3008943 12-Dec-2022 13:03

Sounds like they're budding politicians - we don't listen to experts, we know whats best for you.

wow, impressed myself how I maneuvered Harry Potter round to politics there...

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#3008950 12-Dec-2022 13:15

frankv:
Either TM has hidden the solution so completely that a minute search of the UI can't find it, or it's not there at all.

You could be a the lucky participant in some A/B testing. Has anyone else seen this, or more accurately everyone else seen it?

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#3009066 12-Dec-2022 15:10

rb99:

Same people who make the dialogue inaudible / unintelligible I guess.

...and when you phone a call-centre and there's a big volume level delta between the hold music and the agent talking. (This appears to be the norm rather than the exception.)

Did Eric Clapton really think she looked wonderful...or was it after the 15th outfit she tried on and he just wanted to get to the party and get a drink?

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#3009091 12-Dec-2022 16:44

Damn. Internet out all day. No alternative either. I actually had to do something productive.

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#3009098 12-Dec-2022 17:19

Rikkitic:

Damn. Internet out all day. No alternative either. I actually had to do something productive.

I bet you feel better for it and virtuous to boot.

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#3009102 12-Dec-2022 17:29

Getting a Fixed Price Offer from TM just now for an auction that ended on:

Closed:Sun 6 Nov 4:08 pm

Sheesh, don't you think I would have bought a BT transmitter elsewhere by now?

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#3009113 12-Dec-2022 18:41

Get an email from Radio Spectrum Management telling me they're moving to a new system and I need to sign in and link my old account to the new one. Go through the laborious several-stage RealMe + RSM logon process and get... 404. On two different browsers, so it's not a browser problem.

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#3009267 12-Dec-2022 21:26

Bought a size 4 Turkey from New World today in case we miss out only to bring it home and see the PacnSave email flyer that has it for $20 less this week.

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#3009270 12-Dec-2022 21:32

Eva888: Bought a size 4 Turkey from New World today in case we miss out only to bring it home and see the PacnSave email flyer that has it for $20 less this week.

But at least you have one! If you hadn't bought it and waited there would be probably none left when you went to get it!

Murphy is a ....(Insert your choice of word here)!

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#3009276 12-Dec-2022 21:43

Very true and Murphy has been super active this last month. I feel better now thinking I could have been driving to the next PacnSave using $20 of gas because the local one will have run out and my time is so precious at the moment.