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[fan_eunice]

Now that I am sitting at the brother's restaurant waiting on my download (go FASTER, I needs my Eleventy) let us talk about something far less morbid.

Headphones. Or more specifically vidding/vids and headphones. My preference both for making and watching vids is to do so with headphones. Maybe it is that I have difficulty blocking ambient sounds (don't ever try to talk to me in an airport, all I will hear is 'wahwahwahwah' like the Peanuts teacher), but without headphones I have a lot of difficulty picking up the kind of subtleties in music that I love to play with and love seeing other vids play with.

What leaves me pondering this is when I then watch vids on a regular tv or with speakers and how much of that feels like it is lost or reads differently. So, I guess my question is how much of that is my weird hearing issues, and how much is that universal. And is it better to vid assuming the viewer will be using speakers/television?

Comments

[lizbee]

Both watching vids and vidding are nearly exclusively done with headphones for me. Especially vidding, because otherwise I think my flatmates would actually murder me.

I don't watch vids with speakers or television hugely often, but when I do, I find it's the TV experience that's different. And I do think you lose a lot of subtlety with the TV, just because there's usually more going on than simply you, your screen and the vid.

[franzeska]

I usually vid and watch vids with headphones. I've previewed a few things on my massive tv though, just to try to get an idea of how they'd seem at a con.