Each of the three televisions has been equipped with automation capable of negotiating programs to watch with visiting robots, but due to the limited 16 bit vocabulary of the "Movie Night" negotiation topic, each has made technical compromises that might make that negotiation more of a challenge.
The stylish midcentury television on the left can play any one of three "A&E Mystery Movie" videotapes taped from basic cable in September 1996, each about three hours long and containing at least one complete episode of "Banacek". It bids and accepts three of the eight reserved USER topic codes for negotiation, intended for pre-planned extensions between parties. This behavior is unlikely to be useful to first-time visitors but might be useful to a sufficiently sophisticated robot program on a repeat viewings.
The middle TV has two episodes of Twin Peaks (Season 2, episodes 14 and 15) taped from broadcast television. It will negotiate both of these together as "Fire Walk with Me" (1992), which is as close a fit as is present in the "Movie Night" vocabulary. Unfortunately, these are not the best episodes of the show.
The large, 1970’s living-room floor model television on the right plays a short, flickering, black and white loop of a close-up on an old, white-bearded man laughing. It does not broadcast offers, and while it accepts connections, any negotiation bids will be declined.
