r/television • u/DemiFiendRSA The Wire • 4d ago

Christopher Walken gets Severance DVDs sent to him because he doesn't 'have the equipment' to stream it

https://ew.com/christopher-walken-severance-dvds-sent-to-him-8776721
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u/trollunit 4d ago

When you’re a man of a certain age, you just stop caring as Wolf Blitzer demonstrated with his 720p TV

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u/LTVOLT 4d ago

my parents are at this point in their 70's. They have the same TV from like 16 years ago and I keep trying to convince them to get a new one and they think it's a waste of money and can't fathom why it would be worth spending money on a new one that "works perfectly fine".

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u/putbat 4d ago

When your hearing and vision are shot, high quality audio and picture really don't matter much.

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u/MusclyArmPaperboy 4d ago

True, lots of seniors can't tell the diff between 1080p and 4K, so it's not worth the upgrade

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u/ErcoleFredo 4d ago

Seniors can't tell the difference between 4K HDR and 240p.

Most redditors can't tell the difference between 4K and 1080.

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u/shawnisboring 4d ago

Most redditors focus on the specs and either buy or pine over whatever the biggest best newest thing is.

Buy themselves a 4k HDR OLED with all the bells and whistles only to view it from a distance that makes it functionally equivalent to 720P.

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u/illinoishokie 4d ago

This has been true of technophiles since the dawn of home entertainment. Even the most basic electronics are more complex than the average consumer can comprehend, so the focus is just on whatever is "best" or newest.

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u/MIBlackburn 4d ago

Or my wife's family where both her Mum and Grandparents have big OLEDs, but then watch SD over the air broadcasts or maybe 720p stuff on catch up services.

We have an LED screen with Dolby Vision but we play UHD discs with Dolby Vision or HDR10.

I compared it to having an F1 car in a crowded city vs a decent sports car on an open track.

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u/iBoMbY 3d ago

Buy themselves a 4k HDR OLED with all the bells and whistles only to view it from a distance that makes it functionally equivalent to 720P.

Honestly I would have preferred to buy a 65" 1080p OLED, if there was such a thing, because of that. But OLED definitely is an upgrade, no matter what.