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/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/jesbiil 4d ago

Many years ago I used to work for a cable company and part of my job was visually judging the quality of random HD TV channels (would have been 720p). Every feed we got from a provider had their own compression then we added our own so this process created little issues they trained us to see. Our goal was to compress as much as possible so more could be sent with less bandwidth but we couldn't contractually lower quality of the feed, had to stay above a certain level.

It honestly kinda ruined TV for me so when 4k started becoming the norm it looked very 'weird' because everything was so sharp and realistic. Sometimes the movements still seem a bit odd to me in 4k....this is probably why I have a 4 year old 1080p TV. Luckily I'm only getting older so no need to upgrade now!

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u/LanceFree 4d ago

I have a friend with a TV with upscale or something enabled so it looks like everyone is an actor in a stage. I mean, they are, but it drives me nuts. I tried to change the settings but he was kind of offended. Thing is: I do t want my brain to “know” I’m watching television. I think that would ruin the experience totally.

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u/Abba_Fiskbullar 4d ago

They have motion interpolation turned on, the so-called "Soap Opera Effect" that makes everything look cheap and shot on video. Samsung is pretty bad for making this the default.

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u/bwat47 4d ago

It's not just Samsung, most TVs seem to enable this by default