Even on my nice 2.1 setup on my PC, I always put captions on.
It's because re-reading a word I didn't understand is much faster and easier than re-hearing (in my head) a word I didn't understand.
It's even happened with my spouse, in the same room, speaking the same dialect of American English as me, with the same accent. I mis-hear one word, and it bleeds into the next word, and I need to think for a few seconds or ask them to repeat before the sentence makes any sense to me.
Perhaps us, and the TV actors, just don't enunciate like we used to?
It's because re-reading a word I didn't understand is much faster and easier than re-hearing (in my head) a word I didn't understand.
It's even happened with my spouse, in the same room, speaking the same dialect of American English as me, with the same accent. I mis-hear one word, and it bleeds into the next word, and I need to think for a few seconds or ask them to repeat before the sentence makes any sense to me.
Perhaps us, and the TV actors, just don't enunciate like we used to?