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Cholly
02-24-09, 04:28 PM
Someone was circulating a rumor about DTV converters having a camera inside. Of course, it was a hoax. :D
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/39676
BattleZone
02-24-09, 07:17 PM
No one can ever explain how these "hidden cameras and mics" are supposed to get their signals back to the mother ship/government/nosey neighbor...
tcusta00
02-24-09, 07:20 PM
No one can ever explain how these "hidden cameras and mics" are supposed to get their signals back to the mother ship/government/nosey neighbor...

Yeah I was wondering that as I watched the video. It all goes back through the antenna, right? :confused:
BattleZone
02-24-09, 07:30 PM
Yeah I was wondering that as I watched the video. It all goes back through the antenna, right? :confused:

Right... And inside the box is a 60,000 watt amplifier to ensure the signal gets out far enough...
P Smith
02-24-09, 08:08 PM
Why it's need to spread hoaxes here ? :rolleyes:
dorfd1
02-24-09, 09:23 PM
I have the same converter as he does?
Jim5506
02-24-09, 10:38 PM
No, the cameras are in the Dish ViP boxes, what do you think that middle eye is with the IR receivers on both sides. That way Charlie can tell how many are watching at a time - much more elegant than Neilson.
BattleZone
02-25-09, 10:50 AM
Why it's need to spread hoaxes here ? :rolleyes:

We're making fun of the hoax, as it blatently fails to pass the "smell test." I'm amazed at the things people genuinely believe in...
n3ntj
02-26-09, 02:28 PM
Someone was circulating a rumor about DTV converters having a camera inside. Of course, it was a hoax. :D
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/39676

What's surprises me is the number of dumb people that believe such things.....then again, no, it doesn't surprise me. There are a lot of dumb people out there.
scooper
02-26-09, 03:12 PM
What's surprises me is the number of dumb people that believe such things.....then again, no, it doesn't surprise me. There are a lot of dumb people out there.

You can say that again - and again, and again.... :D
Nick
02-26-09, 05:41 PM
I don't believe the govt's DTV D/A converters have cameras in
them, but just in case I wouldn't put one in my bedroom. :eek:
BattleZone
02-26-09, 06:27 PM
That's okay. NSA has been using the alarm clock in your room to listen to you for years already. I downloaded a few of your bedroom MP3s from Usenet the other day...
zman977
02-26-09, 07:34 PM
In other words the governernment is only interested in listening to and watching people who get their TV signals OTA?

Something els these people can never explain is where is all this information stored. I mean it would take an awful lot of storage sapce to store all these video and audio files that they supposedly get from the DTV boxes. The people who believe these things can never seem to expain this.
BattleZone
02-26-09, 07:40 PM
Those recordings are stored on tapes, crated up, and transferred here:

http://www.sullivanclinton.com/gallery/albums/album04/Raiders_Of_The_Lost_Ark_Government_Warehouse2.jpg
hdtvfan0001
03-01-09, 08:35 AM
That's okay. NSA has been using the alarm clock in your room to listen to you for years already. I downloaded a few of your bedroom MP3s from Usenet the other day...
Do you want to discuss the secret cameras in bathroom plumbing fixtures now? :D

(Where does it all end....?) :lol:
rlgold88
03-01-09, 08:45 AM
No No "Chuck" has it stored in his brain