This pestilence is a golden oldie. The web is full of customer complaints and official organisation complaints, it goes back years, with no action or interest whatsoever shown or taken by the program producers.
I have often turned the sound off when the background noise drives me crackers and overwhelms the speaker and turned on the sub-titles, where this is possible. Many programs do not have sub-titles, so the person speaking is drowned out by this infernal noise. Sometimes the guy speaking is frail and soft spoken, yet they drown his voice with all kinds of noise. Same with the narrator.
It is not just music, it often involves just a random noise, banging drums, whistles, plonking on a piano, trumpets, banging on a dustbin lid, or simply an unidentified noise.
Why any intelligent human brain should deliberately insert a noise when people are simply talking, often in a quiet room, is beyond my comprehension. These acoustic addicts just cannot balance the decibels of normal speech with a background racket. They even have some irrelevant music or random racket booming out with a battle going on !
The days of silent films are long gone when somebody tormented a piano to pump up the audience's adrenaline, while the damsel was tied to the railway track or the stagecoach was being chased by Indians. I have news for these destructive acoustic vandals - we have actual sound now !
Does anybody else have this eternal pestilence of a problem destroying their TV pleasure ?
I have often turned the sound off when the background noise drives me crackers and overwhelms the speaker and turned on the sub-titles, where this is possible. Many programs do not have sub-titles, so the person speaking is drowned out by this infernal noise. Sometimes the guy speaking is frail and soft spoken, yet they drown his voice with all kinds of noise. Same with the narrator.
It is not just music, it often involves just a random noise, banging drums, whistles, plonking on a piano, trumpets, banging on a dustbin lid, or simply an unidentified noise.
Why any intelligent human brain should deliberately insert a noise when people are simply talking, often in a quiet room, is beyond my comprehension. These acoustic addicts just cannot balance the decibels of normal speech with a background racket. They even have some irrelevant music or random racket booming out with a battle going on !
The days of silent films are long gone when somebody tormented a piano to pump up the audience's adrenaline, while the damsel was tied to the railway track or the stagecoach was being chased by Indians. I have news for these destructive acoustic vandals - we have actual sound now !
Does anybody else have this eternal pestilence of a problem destroying their TV pleasure ?
