>>My hearing is not good and I watch everything I can with subtitles on. There are still a few DVDs without subtitles and I usually send them back to Netflix unwatched.
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>Its very helpful if you are watching with the sort of people who talk and ask questions during. Like "what did they say ?" and What was he/she in before ?"

Even more helpful if you don't want to hear their intonation, accentuation and generally the pourover (*) job they sometimes do of acting... with those locked-up captions you can safely turn off the sound and still miss nothing in some cases ;).

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"pour over" is a too literal translation of the verb describing the street washers do. There used to be such a thing back home, they probably still exist - a truck equipped with a water tank (takes about seven tons of water, IIRC) with two guys with firehoses would go every night over the summer and jet wash the streets. Now imagine saying about an actor that he's done just the same kind of job... just squirting it indiscriminately over everything when nobody's watching and any passer-by is just getting out of way.