Posted on 09/18/2017 11:24:15 PM PDT by Swordmaker
I was just watching an On-Demand episode 9 of Season 2 of Stitchers on Comcast Xfinity when a Gray Box flashed on the screen about 8 inches by 6 inches with the words, as best as I could read it and recall it:
Below those words in the box were a series of numbers that may have been a phone number, but I don't recall any of the numbers. The second set of numbers may have had four digits, not three, but my impression was the pattern was a phone number. There were no dashes separating the numbers.
After just a split second (It was up for less than a second) the box and words disappeared.
I backed the playback of the video to rewatch that segment to re-read the box, thinking it was an important clue to the show, but it was NOT part of the video at all. It simply was not there! I tried it several times, thinking it was a subliminal message in the playback, but nothing was there. It was obviously something transmitted over the signal.
Did anyone else see anything on their TV screens similar to this?
FWIW I live west of Houston at 1:15am and 1:18am extremely high speed low flying jets went over the house. very unusual.
While we do have a Comcast line it works through the computer and is not linked to the TV. . . and none of the features for phone notifications on the TV are activated. So I doubt that has anything to do with it.
I used to have that notification feature when I had DishNetwork in Stockton.
By chance, is your TV a late model? Something that has access to the “internet of things?”
Anyway, my guesses are 1) merry pranksters; 2) someone testing a genuine message that is going out the wrong way (testing on a signal/channel someone thinks is not in use); 3) a genuine message being sent out and somehow your TV is sensitive to its reception. (Like a closed-circuit signal that is somehow being broadcast that your TV is able to pick up.)
I’m not a broadcast nor electronics engineer, so sorry to those who are for mangling or conflating terms or concepts.
I wonder if someone at Comcast is pushing buttons they don't understand in the control booth? It seems strange that random alerts are being sent out that would be directed towards military families. . . that only appear for split seconds, not long enough for most people to read or react to them.
These messages are not on the screen long enough for anyone to copy the numbers. It's all I can do to even see and read the messages, much less read the phone numbers and memorize them. I got a 68 year old memory. The RAM is getting rusty.
Can you record your screen with another device?
so was mine. my phone was over the internet and my cable was too...suggestion check a description of services provided in your phone contract you might find that the phone goes to the tv set if you don’t answer.
I'll change underwear too. . . at least I'll start out with them clean. Who knows how long they'll stay that way with those Twilight Zone alerts Popping up on my TV screen. LOL!
Trust you to post something delusional. . . because you are delusional.
Take a picture of the screen. Just be ready and snap a quick pic and then you have the number.
It's a so-called smartTV, but not an "IOT" tv. It's a 3D TV made four years or so ago by Panasonic. It has WIFI and Ethernet connectivity, but currently only the ethernet is activated for network connections. Except for the WIFI, all of your examples are possibilities.
I could video it with my iPhone, but the boxes and texts are only up for fractional seconds. . . There have been only those three so far and no warning for when they will flash on the screen. It would be hard to capture. I could have tried recording the on-demand, but who knows when it would do it again. . . but on-demand doesn't capture the screen, or any overlays. It records the incoming digital signal, not anything added on top of it. I don't have any VCRs any more.
Hmmmmm. Coincidence? Maybe.
Good idea, but I don't think anyone's reaction time would permit that. Just seeing it is enough of a challenge, let alone trying to hit a camera shutter button fast enough before it's gone after realizing the message is there. We are talking maybe a half-second on screen before it's gone. . . with one of them appearing then the next one about an hour later. The timing is not regular by any means.
I don’t know I’ve never heard military jets fly that low overhead before. 2 jets and a few minutes later a cargo plane. I was looking for any information about possible threats of war when I saw your post.
OBEY
Hmmmm. Maybe we will find out a certain problem "family" was taken out during the early morning hours while we slept and the North Korea potential war is no more? Well, one can wish. . .
Rofl!! What the heck is happening to this website? A new visitor would think we were nuts.
Better start recording all the TV watching, may need the evidence after someone comes knocking on the door claiming, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you”.
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