Not wanting to hijack the thread, I'll quote the Venerable Hamish from a thread in "Kilts in the Media" regarding "Scottish Star Trek".

"As for not being able to understand all of it: we Brits often have the same problem when watching some of the American TV shows. Many leave me cold because I just cannot follow the oh-so-quickly-spoken, and frequently shouted, dialogue - and I know I am not alone in this."

Interesting....whenever a TV show of UK origin comes on, I find myself having to turn the sound up just to be able to hear what's being said. I am sort of attuned to understanding the accents for the most part but there's some kind of difference in the audio that makes it necessary for me to turn it up. Having worked in TV production a while back, I attribute this to different technical standards in the two countries...TV audio tracks from the Uk seem to be recorded in a "flatter" equalization and the music from the soundtrack seems to be at a higher level relative to the spoken word. US TV audio seems to have higher levels toward the higher frequencies. This may be because of broadcast standards....these usually set the specifications that producers must follow for their shows to be sent out over the air.

"Inspector Morse" was one of THE most difficult shows to listen to. Recently we've gotten "Distant Shores" and "New Tricks", both of which have been great to watch. "Distant Shores" has (ex-Dr. Who/All Creatures Great And Small/Campion) Peter Davidson....love to watch him act. I started watching "New Tricks" because it has Alun Armstrong...Master of the 'ouse from Les Mis...but it's full of good actors...it's about three retired coppers that get brought back in to solve unresolved cases and it's funny and has good plots...and it has Amanda Redman who has serious *schwing* factor.

But I always thought that there was some audio strangeness going on...

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