But... Films and TV shows where the characters tap out a text or message on their phones for the screen, which carry key plot points and which you're expected to be able to read from your sofa 10 feet away from the screen (this also applies to reading letters from a character's POV without voiceover telling us what it says). Noticed this recently in things like Black Mirror and a film we watched the other week that I can't remember because I'm freaking old now dammit *shakes fist at cloud*
The other night I was forced to get up and stand closer to the TV every time this happened (which was frequently) just to know what the fuck was going on.
Some shows (like Sherlock, I think?) have the text come up at the bottom of the screen as a caption or something like that, which you can actually read. This should be standard, dammit!
Also related: mumblers. Christ, these actors get paid a shitload, could they not have the good grace to actually enunciate their lines? We watched Interstellar the other night which was particularly bad for this (great film, though). Every time the characters whispered their dialogue to each other I was forced to jack the volume up to max just to hear them, then seconds later there'd be an action scene that blew us backwards across the room like Michael J Fox at the start of Back to the Future. I read recently that Christopher Nolan mixed the sound like that deliberately, god knows why.
Also related: Christopher Nolan
