This is a big one for me. I'm not sure if I'm just getting older, but half the stuff on TV looks too dark to me. I'll just turn off movies or shows within a few minutes if everything seems too dark and gritty. My ears already are working harder, leave my eyes alone.
There seems to be an effect where the more visual information something is capable of, the more critical we become of its content.
Go back and watch a VHS on a CRT TV, or even a DVD version of something that has a Blu-ray or HD version available to stream. It's abysmal, and yet we somehow managed to love them.
After struggling to create single a receiver profile for modern streaming content to cover the range from "everyone's mouth is full of socks" to "pure sonic agony", I do agree that audio mixing has become something of a lost art.
> There seems to be an effect where the more visual information something is capable of, the more critical we become of its content.
Maybe because when the creators stop being constrained by the medium, they get "creative"?
> Go back and watch a VHS on a CRT TV, or even a DVD version of something that has a Blu-ray or HD version available to stream. It's abysmal, and yet we somehow managed to love them.
Good or bad, at least the full range of colors was used. For example, I've watched tons of Star Trek shows of home-recorded VHS tapes on CRT TV, and I'd still prefer that to watching new Star Trek live action installments in 1080p streaming on a high-quality computer screen, simply because in the VHS/CRT/old shows case, things had colors, and I could actually see what's going on.
