Maybe close-mic lavs will win the war :-(
(but that will be my personal conditioning expressing itself as a natural unstoppable bias)

http://bondelev.blogspot.com/2007/05...ion-sound.html

On the other hand, in many countries, dubbing is all they have ever heard, and when you play an American film without dubbing, they hear the sound quality a "far away" and "muddy." So a lot of it is simply what you're used to. We had a group of Vietnamese filmmakers visit USC a few years ago, and they couldn't believe all the trouble we went to in order to get good production sound when "you can just do it all in post much easier." There was no way to change their attitude. And I don't see most countries changing any time soon.
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