Why more TV viewers are switching on subtitles

Netflix says 80% of members regularly use subtitles or closed captions on streaming platform

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Millions of television viewers in the UK with unimpaired hearing are using subtitles, research shows.

So just why has what “was once a question of accessibility and a mainstay of foreign-language broadcasts” become an “inescapable part of visual media”, asked culture writer Hannah J. Davies in The Guardian.

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