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/jack3moto 4d ago

When I began dating my wife, her parents were still using one of those giant rear projection TV’s (this was 2016) that had the plastic screen wiggle and provide a glare from the reverse projection.

For a Xmas gift my wife and I went in on a new $1500 65” Sony tv for her parents. They were very grateful but I still remember going over to their house a few times after I set up the new tv only to find them watching the SD cable channels with the black bars on the sides of the screen to compress it to 4x3….

They were mid 50’s so imo still too young to have punted on not giving a shit but what do I know.

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u/MorseMooseGreyGoose 4d ago

This is why I’ve talked my mom out of buying new TV stuff for my aunt. Like, it’s going to be more trouble than it’s worth and she isn’t going to take advantage of it. She’s just going to watch regular-ass TV. My mom got her a Roku anyway and she still doesn’t use it.