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Phones can do most of the things you listed.

So a "desktop PC" isn't about its feature set or where you might put it, instead it is a form factor.

From my understanding, it used CPU acceleration instead

that would be because headphones are stereo.

this will be because more recent movies will be utilising high dynamic ranges for audio, worked around by compressing/limiting but in doing so, you lose quality.

trade-offs for everything.

there was a time when stereo was seen as unnecessary faff, too.

edit: movies are mixed for theatres and no longer are the home releases adjusted to suit.

I'm guessing you're using a stereo setup then, dialogue is usually mixed into the centre channel, downmixing a 5.1 or 7.1 stream to stereo will produce those results.

even worse is if you don't downmix to stereo, and all you are hearing is front left and right, which is often just the reverb effect channels for dialogue

this must be a bot, right?

your problem is likely this

https://wiki.videolan.org/VSG:Video:Color_washed_out/

a main tenet of graphic design is sacrificing your art for functionality. i'm not sure what designers you've been speaking to, but i doubt they're professionals.

i believe he is talking about the built in set of midi generators and bars

he's just pulling your leg, he's referring to an older woman. they're known as "cougars". but this lil' thread gave me a laugh.

either way, you need to scrub the floors, unfortunately!

source: i am a cleaner.

ah yes, and the wide-reaching effects on piracy those have caused.