Results: Subtitles
Published on 02/05/2025
Source: https://tasteofcountry.com/americans-cant-watch-tv-without-subtitles/
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A recent survey conducted by Pubity indicates that a whopping 70 percent of entertainment consumers watch television with closed captioning enabled. Do you typically use closed captioning or subtitles while watching TV and movies?
Yes
32%
923 votes
No
58%
1680 votes
Not Applicable
10%
297 votes
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"Whether it's to catch every word of dialogue or simply a new viewing habit, subtitles seem to be becoming a must-have for many," the publication writes on social media. If you use subtitles, select all the reasons why. Improved comprehension
21%
608 votes
Learning a new language
8%
239 votes
Hearing impairment
11%
325 votes
Distracting background noises
14%
420 votes
Complex or fast dialogue
16%
470 votes
Multitasking
8%
243 votes
Sound quality issues
11%
311 votes
Personal P=preference
7%
209 votes
Other (please specify)
2%
51 votes
Not Applicable
51%
1491 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 0.31% | 9 | |
| Foreign films | 0.07% | 2 |
| Speech recognition especially with British programs. | 0.03% | 1 |
| My daughter is deaf in her left ear. | 0.03% | 1 |
| The actors & actresses sometimes slur their words and speak too low, even trying to read their lips is hard. So it can be hard to understand what they say. | 0.03% | 1 |
| Sometimes you can't understand what is being said | 0.03% | 1 |
| personally NO ! Many of the words come up totally different | 0.03% | 1 |
| others like to have it | 0.03% | 1 |
| When I m trying to watch videos without the sound disturbing others around me | 0.03% | 1 |
| I watch series with the original audio in a language I don't master | 0.03% | 1 |
| difficult accents of actors | 0.03% | 1 |
| do not like subtitles | 0.03% | 1 |
| Many shows seem to play very loud music while dialogue is happening making it difficult tovhear the words they are saying.usic | 0.03% | 1 |
| Sound not always good n a program or certain channel. | 0.03% | 1 |
| The only time I do is when my best friend is over because she has trouble hearing | 0.03% | 1 |
| Watching foreign media | 0.03% | 1 |
| heavy accents | 0.03% | 1 |
| When they talk too fast /have a thick accent & you want to know what they said | 0.03% | 1 |
| MUST HAVE ASL INTERPRETER! PLEASE DO NOT TYPE HEARING IMPAIRED | 0.03% | 1 |
| Better understanding of movies with dialects. | 0.03% | 1 |
| difficult to understand accents | 0.03% | 1 |
| The ads are too loud, and the actual content of a tv show or movie is too SOFT can't hear anything but the background music | 0.03% | 1 |
| Too many of these people mumble so much it's hard to make out what they're saying without closed captioning1 | 0.03% | 1 |
| Actors who use street accents, background music far too loud, slurring words, amatuer sound engineers. | 0.03% | 1 |
| The music over powers the dialogue | 0.03% | 1 |
| Mush mouthed act ors! | 0.03% | 1 |
| Actors mumble. | 0.03% | 1 |
| husband is hard of hearing | 0.03% | 1 |
| I'm not hearing impaired but still have a hard time understanding what's spoken | 0.03% | 1 |
| English speaking actors mumble. Subs for English in foreign films. | 0.03% | 1 |
| hard to understand some accents. | 0.03% | 1 |
| Children in household see words and use it for learning | 0.03% | 1 |
| it's in a foriegn language | 0.03% | 1 |
| Equal opportunity | 0.03% | 1 |
| I used to use subtitles when mumbling Joe Biden was giving a speech | 0.03% | 1 |
| only for foreign films | 0.03% | 1 |
| hearing | 0.03% | 1 |
| the music or sounds they use over power the words being said | 0.03% | 1 |
| To understand the dialogue of foreign films | 0.03% | 1 |
| Lack of control of volume when background of films or episodes has sound effects or music that hampers clarity in dialogue. | 0.03% | 1 |
| Ever since Christopher Nolan made Tenet more studios and production companies use bad sound engineering on purpose because they're pretentious fools. | 0.03% | 1 |
| Watching foreign movies | 0.03% | 1 |
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