I go to the movies about once a month... and I always ask for the hard of hearing devices.. with my old hearing aids the Movie device..(ear muff type with volume control) were always better (more fidelity)... but now with my new Starkey hearing aids provided by the Veterans Administration (VA) they are better or at least equal to the theater system... I sit toward the front and enjoy the show... hardly missing anything... The young folks who seem to be running things in the theater are not generally trained very well... the maintenance of the devices by the theater "help" is really a problem... I even use the hard of hearing devices offered by the symphony when I go to live performances... Closed captioning on my TV is always on... it helps a lot as some enunciation in British mysteries and such is not always clear enough for my mental processing to wade through.. Ken