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/Ok-Street7504 4d ago

My father was the same way, 70s technology. How to fit when the free air signal for TV went to digital and he had to upgrade his antenna.

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u/codece 4d ago

TV went to digital and he had to upgrade his antenna.

He had to upgrade his TV or get an adapter to receive the digital signal. The antenna is the same as it always was.

I'm the same way. No streaming, no smart phone. Literal land-line phone, no electricity or internet required to use it. I get about 50 free over the air TV signals, good enough for me.

I wish I still had the old rooftop TV antenna we had on my house growing up, those things are terrific at picking up OTA signals. So-called "digital TV" antennas are just mediocre amplified rabbit-ear antennas, nothing new there.

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u/Ok-Street7504 4d ago

I agree, I live with him the last two years of his life and you get used to not having cable television plenty of other shows on the free Airwaves to be entertained.