#subtitles

#subtitles

I used to think there were two types of people: the ones who only use subtitles when necessary, and the unappreciative philistines who use them for no good reason. I was willing to die on this hill, arguing that they distracted from the purity of the audiovisual experience: the cinematographer's attention to detail, the glimpse of a tear in an actor's eye, the punchline of an expertly timed joke, and so on.

"Errors in subtitles aren't unheard of, but sentences like 'Is gameover. if you fall, you are out' are an entirely different kind of bad."

Nearly half of all Americans use subtitles when they watch TV, and Netflix is enhancing the experience by introducing a new subtitle option that focuses solely on dialogue.