English Tv Show Lip Sync Battle

If I were to ask you what annoys you most, you would probably say something like, your dog eating up your shoe, not being able to find something you are desperately looking for, trying to mug up your syllabus the night before your exam and so on. For me, though, the most annoying, oh wait! That is an understatement. The most frustrating, hair-tearing moment, when I REALLY get livid (okay, I will stop the drama) is when I am trying to watch my favorite TV series, and the lip sync just would not match.

Like can you imagine trying to watch friends like, hearing Joey’s dialogue while Chandler is speaking and Chandler’s dialogue while Ross is speaking? No! I am sorry, but I cannot tolerate hearing “How you doin?” from Chandler’s mouth just like I cannot fathom watching Ross’s mouth move hopelessly while hearing Chandler’s satisfyingly vicious sarcasm. So I did something, unlike my character. I moved my ass and did some productive research. Yeah, I am proud of myself too! This brings me to this article, the battles of watching a lip sync issue free TV series.

This can happen because of various reasons; sometimes it is just the fault of our TV. Changing the channel or rebooting might help. If not you can even try getting a new receiver, it might also help you get better sound effect than the normal TV speakers. You might hear the dialogues more clearly, and that’s a great plus point if you ask me! TV and movies have had a huge battle in itself when it comes to matching the audio and video. Back in the days when sound was first introduced in this field, a ‘clapper’ slate was produced to create a ‘sync’ point.

Video tape recording was introduced in the late 50’s and was later adapted for television. Over the years, digital frame sync and MPEG were developed, but when the A/V delay becomes obvious, ideally the decoder should buffer and start again. However, since interrupting the signal might be more annoying than correcting the lip sync error, the decoder does not do those, the reason why changing the channel several times help. In the mid 90’s Tektronix developed a technique which worked well with light compressors but with heavy compressors, things were still unstable.

After this exceptionally informative article (joking!) you might ask what people are still doing with all the advancement in technology? Well, SMPTE published a standard in 2015 (ST 2064-2015) which measures the time difference between audio and video and compensate for the video delay by delaying the audio as well. The in-built speaker is hence in time with the picture (well, mostly). So now you know, how much the industry is fighting to win this battle!