> I was reading a book on movies the other day, "Making Movies," by the director Sidney Lumet, who made the point that advancing technology, such as you describe, has been changing the art of sound effects editing:
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> "Sound effects have also developed their own cliches over the years. Can there be a country night scene without crickets? A dog barking in the distance? How about a pile driver in a tense urban scene? Slowly, progress is taking some of the cliches away. Phones in an office no longer ring, they purr. Computers have replaced typewriters, fax machines for teletypes. Everything grows quieter and colorless. Car alarms are a great help, but they're just as annoying on-screen as they are off."

When is it that I will actually see a commercial or movie that uses current sounds for computer/video games. It isn't very convincing when I'm supposed to be looking at cutting edge technology and I'm hearing Mario jumping over barrels. Are Atari 2600 sounds that much cheaper than something from the last 10 years?

And the email programs they use in movies are nothing like anything that ever existed.

Ferrick