• TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Mostly they’re on so if I miss something, I can glance down and catch it before it disappears, or rewind and figure out what the actor just mumbled.

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      I had a free trial of apple tv and the only thing I liked was that if you rewinded it it would pop on the subtitles for that period of time and then turn them back off.

      There wasn’t enough programming I liked for me to keep the subscription after the free trial but I thought it was a nice touch.

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      2 days ago

      This is exactly why I always have them running. My wife hates it. My proposed solution: give me a smaller screen near the TV that shows the subtitles. That’s my $1 million idea of the year.

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        There is a subtitle viewer app that does this with your phone! I’ve never tried it though.

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        That’s the one good thing about the ultra-wide mlvie format vs a normal screen. You get some space the movie never occupies.

        In programs like Media Player Classic, you can easily shift the video up on the screen. Just push the movie up until it’s touching the top edge, and suddenly there’s a nice space for subtitles that don’t overlap the movie!

        The phone idea and other stuff people have mentioned already do sound pretty neat for 16x9 media though.

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      One feature I really like on Apple TV is if you hit the back button and go back 10 seconds, it will turn on subtitles for that 10 seconds. Unfortunately, Plex does not support that feature.