Confusion processing TV visuals

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If I lay down while watching TV and my head is tipped on its side I find it almost impossible to follow what is going on. Even when I tip my head just a little I start to rely really heavily on my hearing rather than sight. What I see becomes mostly colour and movement.

My NT partner has no problem with this and suggested that it may be because it is already hard for us to read faces, it would surely be harder the "wrong way up".

Does anyone else find this?

Occasionally when I see an odd or unusual scene on TV or in a movie, it's all blurry nonsense for a few seconds until my brain is able to catch up and, I guess, back-process it and I suddenly realize what just happened.

No change laying on my side or whatnot though.

Most TV visuals are a confusing mess of noise and flashy colours.
I understand this is called 'entertainment', although for the life of me I can't see why.

[quote="Cornflake"]Most TV visuals are a confusing mess of noise and flashy colours.
I understand this is called 'entertainment', although for the life of me I can't see why.[/quote

There is one program here that has a) a soundtrack featuring historical music and speeches; b) a subtitle line featuring news relating to the same period; c) a vertical scrolling text of popular events; d) an occasional voice-over. The cable news channels are bad too, with a talking head, an animated background visual and a scrolling "breaking news".

I find this kind of thing terribly confusing and can only cope with one stream at a time.

God yes. I wonder how anyone is expected to cope with this, let alone whether it's even necessary to package as much as possible into as small a space as possible.

It's a similar thing with documentaries, where some bright spark in production decides that voice-over and a straightforward visual sequence of events simply aren't enough and has to pad it out with inappropriate (or worse, 'mood-cueing') music and silly camera zoom tricks.
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