Writing on tv screen?

[razorbackfan]

I was watching the E* Fox West channel Tuesday at about 1pm Central and noticed a LOT of bizarre writing across the tv screen. A black box would appear with characters typing across it. Then typing in various parts of my tv screen. What was that????

[Rick_EE]

What kind of stuff did it say?

[Scott Greczkowski]

Did you accidently sit on your remote control and turn Closed Captioning on? :)

My TV has a few diffrent modes of closed captions on it and had the same thing happen before when I was on one of the other modes of Captioning.

[Richard King]

That was a message from the black helicopters.

Actually, it was probably something going bonkers in the descrambling hardware that Dish uses at their receive point in Wyoming.

[Tomsoundman]

Is your TV on "text" closed captioning instead of off or regular captioning? When I have "text" on while on a Public TV channel, I get some farm reports or something that covers the whole screen.

[gcutler]

I have seen it (especially late are night on some of the lower quality channels) where someone is making changes to the video graphics and forgets that it is going out live. So it could be programming of the graphics SW for broadcast either intentionally or unintentionally aired.

[Timco]

Don't go into the LIGHT!

[razorbackfan]

Nope, not the closed caption stuff. It wasn't on and I wasn't sitting on my remote. I turned the tv to regular cable and it wasn't there. Wasn't on any of the other E* channels either. Just Fox West (KTTV LA). The writing was all white on black backgrounds except for one set that was red lettering. It was similar to this: $7e)>@c%. But very long strings.

[markh]

Maybe you need a decoder ring. :)

Could it be a test of of the CC system? No other ideas here. Have you seen the Sportscenter commercial where the mascot is typing on the teleprompter?

[gcutler]

Originally posted by razorbackfan
Nope, not the closed caption stuff. It wasn't on and I wasn't sitting on my remote. I turned the tv to regular cable and it wasn't there. Wasn't on any of the other E* channels either. Just Fox West (KTTV LA). The writing was all white on black backgrounds except for one set that was red lettering. It was similar to this: $7e)>@c%. But very long strings.

That could be a sign of something wrong with your reciever. Just like a PC that has temporarily or permanently gone wacky garbage can get produced as output (instead of one pixel being a certain color, it displayed $7e)>@c% on the screen.) Could have been something on Dish's end, one of their mpeg devices may have gone wacky and needed a reboot or replace.

[cnsf]

Originally posted by razorbackfan
I was watching the E* Fox West channel Tuesday at about 1pm Central and noticed a LOT of bizarre writing across the tv screen. A black box would appear with characters typing across it. Then typing in various parts of my tv screen. What was that????

Has it happened again? If it was a one time thing, I'd ignore it until you see it again.

[razorbackfan]

I haven't been home long enough since Tuesday afternoon to watch tv. Will see if it happens this weekend. If it does I'll call E* tech support and see what it is.

[jrjcd]

it's charlie trying to take control of your mind...woooo woooo wooooooo

[razorbackfan]

What mind?

[cnsf]

Originally posted by jrjcd
it's charlie trying to take control of your mind...woooo woooo wooooooo

used to be "merger, merger, merger....."

:D

[TopCat99]

Just wait 'til you get the closed captioning from the wrong program...

;)

[Cyclone]

Carol anne! run into the light!

Sorry Timco, Have to disagree with you here. run into the light!

[Nick]

It's YOU, Razorback, and your magnetic personality.

Or, it could be your TV just trying to be all it can be.

Or, it could be that the S.E.T.I. distributive computing program has taken over your PC and you are receiving the very first communication from sentient beings elsewhere in the universe.

Go to Office Depot and get some correction fluid.

[gcutler]

Originally posted by Nick
Go to Office Depot and get some correction fluid.

Is he a Blonde? Otherwise he would figure it out before he got back home :p