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Comcast TV | September 18, 2017 11: am | Swordmaker

Posted on 09/18/2017 11:24:15 PM PDT by Swordmaker

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To: Swordmaker

FWIW I live west of Houston at 1:15am and 1:18am extremely high speed low flying jets went over the house. very unusual.


41 posted on 09/19/2017 12:44:26 AM PDT by Just A Reader
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To: PCPOET7
your telephone bundled with television and internet....when I was a cable subscriber to AT@T if my telephone was busy I would get messages like that if I was watching television.

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.

42 posted on 09/19/2017 12:54:03 AM PDT by Swordmaker (!This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... bet if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

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.


43 posted on 09/19/2017 1:16:17 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: shibumi
FWIW...

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.

44 posted on 09/19/2017 1:16:54 AM PDT by Swordmaker (!This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... bet if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: iowamark
Why don’t you call the number?

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.

45 posted on 09/19/2017 1:19:03 AM PDT by Swordmaker (!This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... bet if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Can you record your screen with another device?


46 posted on 09/19/2017 1:20:58 AM PDT by bonfire
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To: Swordmaker

https://youtu.be/zXT_IOt81Xs


47 posted on 09/19/2017 1:21:54 AM PDT by mindburglar
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To: Swordmaker

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.


48 posted on 09/19/2017 1:22:57 AM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Better take a shower.

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!

49 posted on 09/19/2017 1:25:18 AM PDT by Swordmaker (!This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... bet if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
A secret message from Apple?

Trust you to post something delusional. . . because you are delusional.

50 posted on 09/19/2017 1:32:23 AM PDT by Swordmaker (!This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... bet if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Take a picture of the screen. Just be ready and snap a quick pic and then you have the number.


51 posted on 09/19/2017 1:32:59 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: BradyLS
By chance, is your TV a late model? Something that has access to the “internet of things?”

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.

52 posted on 09/19/2017 1:45:08 AM PDT by Swordmaker (!This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... bet if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: bonfire
Can you record your screen with another device?

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.

53 posted on 09/19/2017 1:49:47 AM PDT by Swordmaker (!This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... bet if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Just A Reader
FWIW I live west of Houston at 1:15am and 1:18am extremely high speed low flying jets went over the house. very unusual.

Hmmmmm. Coincidence? Maybe.

54 posted on 09/19/2017 1:50:43 AM PDT by Swordmaker (!This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... bet if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: eartick
Take a picture of the screen. Just be ready and snap a quick pic and then you have the number.

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.

55 posted on 09/19/2017 2:01:58 AM PDT by Swordmaker (!This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... bet if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

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.


56 posted on 09/19/2017 2:04:21 AM PDT by Just A Reader
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To: Swordmaker

OBEY


57 posted on 09/19/2017 2:14:16 AM PDT by Ragnar Danneskjöld
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To: Just A Reader
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.

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. . .

58 posted on 09/19/2017 2:16:49 AM PDT by Swordmaker (!This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... bet if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Bullish

Rofl!! What the heck is happening to this website? A new visitor would think we were nuts.


59 posted on 09/19/2017 2:18:36 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Swordmaker

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”.


60 posted on 09/19/2017 3:18:10 AM PDT by DaveA37
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