When the TV entertains the whole house
MAKING TELEVISION A LISTENING EXPERIENCE AGAIN
MODERN TECHNOLOGY MAKES EVENING TELEVISION A PLEASURE AGAIN
The film is reaching a dramatic climax: the hero of the story finally confesses to his beloved that he... but why can't he speak more clearly? It's almost impossible to understand him from the comfort of your armchair. Then the garbage truck drives past outside on the street—and all the tension is gone.
Why can't the sound be as clear as if the actors were in the room? Why does everything sound so flat and difficult to distinguish? The days when you instinctively moved closer to the TV when something important happened should be over by now. And let's be honest: simply turning up the volume is not the answer. The noise is unpleasant, and it doesn't make the actors any easier to understand.
TV sound often poor
More complex is not automatically better
Sound design for films is a complex texture of music, atmospheres, effects, special effects, action sounds, and even speech. And today's television sound is hardly comparable to that of earlier times. The era of 5.1 home cinema aims to give viewers the most impressive cinema experience possible on their home TV sets. Loud music and spectacular sound effects are part of this, which quickly pushes TVs with "normal" sound output to their limits and makes listening tiring.
New techniques in film production, as well as the ultra-flat design of modern devices, have led to a deterioration in speech intelligibility. Good sound needs space. This is hardly available in flat devices with the corresponding speakers. The result: dialogues are now more difficult to understand than ever before.
Especially when your hearing starts to deteriorate.
Reason No. 1 for visiting a hearing care professional
Intact hearing is important for social interaction. While our loved ones adapt to our incipient hearing loss, for example by simply speaking a little louder, the television does not. The TV acts as a "truth machine": it is in front of it that we must admit to ourselves for the first time that something is wrong with our ears.
The fact is: no longer being able to understand the television is the main reason why those affected visit an ENT doctor or go straight to a hearing care professional.
As far as speech intelligibility on television is concerned, this step can now be postponed until later. This is because a technical innovation solves the issue in its own unique and elegant way.
Hearing is deteriorating
It is only human that our hearing deteriorates over time. We lose the ability to filter out spoken words from distracting noises. We can often still hear well, but the typical TV mix of dialogue, music, and background noise pushes us to our limits.
Intact hearing perceives both very low (from 16 hertz) and very high (up to 20 kilohertz) tones. Tones with very different sound levels can be perceived, from the drop of a pin to the start-up of a jet engine. The lower limit of the hearing range is called the hearing threshold, and the upper limit is called the pain threshold. The hearing range that is important for speech and music is between approximately 50 hertz and 4 kilohertz.
Hearing damage / hearing threshold shift
OSKAR makes TV dialogs good entertainment again
VOICE-OPTIMIZED SOUND DIRECTLY AT YOUR SEAT
How wonderful it would be to be right in the middle of the action instead of just listening from the sidelines. And that's exactly what you can do – with the help of OSKAR, a truly innovative device. This handy and easy-to-use device has the technology to transmit even the quietest sounds to your couch, the next room, or the bathroom, as if they were being spoken "live" there. Crystal clear. Background noise is filtered out and voices are optimized. Suddenly, you can understand every word again. Even if you wear a hearing aid!
With OSKAR , your TV OSKAR finally OSKAR clearly again. At a normal volume. Your partner and neighbors will be delighted.
