Thanks Exy, but until I get some new glasses, I can't rear the bl00dy captions. Too far for my reading glasses, & not far enough for my normal sight.

Besides, what makes you think I could get the captions to work?

Hasbeen
It must be a bummer dealing with tinnitus. I don't have it but I do find some modern and not so modern film techniques annoying

The running with the camera and rapid zoom in trends which is just annoying. The first Lord of the Rings film did this and it gave me a headache.

Remember the 70s short-lived trend that involved splitting up the screen into various pictures. Film makers must like to try new things and I can understand the temptation to push the boundaries but if it becomes distracting and detracts from the story why do it?

Does this mean I am getting old in my middle-age? :)

Hasbeen,
My wife reckons I suffer from industrial deafness. I claim I ask her to repeat things because of her accent and the young ones mumble. I do get tinnitus at times, but don't tell her. Background music is supposed to be just that, one should not have to shout for a normal conversation. I won't go to places where there is loud music and I have to compete. Walk straight out of shops with loud music.

Yes, I do hate some of the film technics used today. We once went to a live show of the 'Tapdogs' and the noise was deafning. Also some lighting "expert" had a spotlight at the back of the stage that shone in the eyes of the audience. It gave me a headache and if I had my rifle I would have put it out, permanently. The Tapdogs were good but the evening was ruined for me.

So much for sound and lighting professionals.

hasbeen,
My father in law had tinnitus and used them. He was too grumpy to ask if they worked.
Hence the other two options.

Me personally I have a cubby hole with the computer and a small TV a set of radio (cordless) head phones :-) to keep the rabble at bay and if that doesn't work father in law's system.
Do a little,loud, war dance....... silence!......ok they all go into fits of laughter. If I was lucky and timed it correctly I may have heard the important bit.

Hope *that* helps. Then again there's always the shoot the cat option.

He he Ha ha :-)

There is a generation gap between gen X and Y, now there is gen Z, and that is a new ball game. The language is different, the values are different, and even the bodies appear different.
Gen Z will be more obese, more depressed, they will have less expectations than gen Y as they have seen recession and pessimism. They also see lies, deception and corruption surrounding them as "the norm", and those that do this are rewarded by society. Gen Z has not really defined itself, but just as we grasp gen Y's optimism, nepotism, and huge expectations, the communication barriers will get more confusing with more generations developing as we all get older. They are human, they are kids like we were kids, they are as imperfect as we were imperfect. The irony is, they hate "random", but no one is as "random" as gen Y and Z, as new technology is schizophrenic by nature. Their pretense to conformity crashes with their avatars in cyberspace, which are bizarre, macabre, sometimes cute, but usually quite eccentric. While gen X still feels cheated, the baby boomers are still, by and large, smug and skeptical about anything. Somehow, we all have to communicate with some stereotypical traits. With computers challenging identity, privacy, and our very ownership of our very being, this dream is almost reaching that nightmare we all read about. Blessings FLETCHER