Gogarty wrote:

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Gogarty wrote:

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I hate earphones (also hearing impaired but not as much as my
husband). We just put the captions on the TV. Then we can have the
sound off and still know what is going on.

Not too helpful if it's a musical performance you want to watch.

In the case of music, you don't have to watch so much. And for the
hearing impaired, it isn't as critical to understand what is going on
when it is music. If you miss a note or a phrase, you aren't saying
"What? What did he say?" You probably won't even notice that you are
missing all the top (higher) notes in the music unless you are really
profoundly deaf to where you can only feel the vibration of the bass
line in your feet.

I still hate earphones - if they are loud enough to hear, the sound
hurts my ears. (I'm deafer in one ear than the other.) And if the
sound hurts my ears, it is too loud.

With captions (since they usually lag), if I miss a word I can usually
look up and catch it. (Bob won't tell me because it annoys him that I
am using the computer or something while I 'watch' TV and he thinks
that if I paid attention, I'd know what was going on.)

To each his own. I have no problem with earphones. Don't much like
captioned programs.

Most programs now are captioned and most newer TVs can get the
captions

I know there are people who don't like the captions. They do block
out a small portion of the screen. IMHO that is a small price to pay
and on my boat, you would have to put up with them.

My daughter and SIL don't like them. But loud noises really, really
bother me and my daughter and SIL are really noisy. I couldn't hear
the TV at all at their house over the normal conversation. Bob and I
have a tendency at their house to leave the room and go back to the
guest room and shut the door against the noise. This annoys Bob
because he likes to watch the TV and he doesn't like the noise. I
just get on the computer and do email.

And in a bar or restaurant where the ambient noise level is too high
(what with a lot of people talking loudly, several TVs on, plus Musiak
or some kind of music) that no one can hear anything, if I'm to know
what is going on on the TVs (especially the talking head type
programs), the captions have to be on or there's no point in having
the TV on adding to the noise..