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Have you ever had trouble hearing the dialogue on a TV show because there’s so much else going on in the soundtrack? Background music, sound effects, and other audio in a TV show compete with the dialogue (main character voices) to drown out your ability to understand the words.

The good news is that a soundbar can be an effective and simple solution to most TV dialogue comprehension problems.

Walmart carries soundbars from top brands, such as ZVOX, TSV, Vizio, Samsung, LG, VIP, iLive, and Sony, as well as onn., Sonos, and JBL, among many others.

Certain brands that Walmart carries, like ZVOX, are specifically made for users with hearing loss. Other manufacturers focus on other features to appeal to different customers with different needs. 

Why is television dialogue hard to understand? Hollywood is mixing sound for drama, not clarity. We recently Googled the phase "hard to understand dialogue movies" and got 162 million hits. Hollywood is using more adventurous audio mixing techniques – often resulting in unclear dialogue. 

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More families are spending more time at home due to COVID-19 - and watching more TV. But flat-screen TVs use tiny speakers with tinny sound, so it's often hard to understand dialogue, particularly for those with hearing loss. 

ZVOX has solved this problem for over 300,000 families with AccuVoice hearing aid technology.

More and more people can’t understand dialogue on TV shows and movies – because Hollywood is experimenting too much with audio mixing techniques, because TV sound systems are worse than ever, and because 95 million people are over 50 years of age and have some degree of hearing impairment.