Occasionally, a black box will pop up my TV and HTTP or IP addresses will start scrolling down it. It only happens on one TV that I'm having to use the aux video input (tuners shot). I have cable internet and the TV is fed from a split off of the cable line. Any way to block this? TIA for any suggestions.
Greg
BTW....I wrote down some of the ip addresses, checked them on-line and found a couple of them were to partial pages of an on-line casino...hmmm...not a site I would go to.......
Contact your cable co. Sounds like an interesting bug in their system.
fed
sounds like a way of enticing people to "own up" to using a tapped line, i'd think that they put the urls there and see which of their customers go to them, that way they know that someones tapped it.
just a theory :)
fed
This would be a bit of a trick for a conventional TV set. Possibly yours is equipped for "closed captioning" and is getting falsely triggered by the digital info on your cable.
The problem I'm having is that all of the Internet stuff is TCP/IP encoded, which if it got through to a normal TV set would show up only as random noise. On the other hand, if a closed captioning feature is present in the set, it could explain your situation.
Perhaps you could check the TV for a "closed captioning" feature, and turn it off to solve the problem.
Harry C.
fed
Do you have digital cable TV on the same cable? The digital boxes usually contain a cable modem (even if it isn't used/enabled) so it could be a fault in the digital decoder.
As this is legible, it must be being converted into video somewhere - if it's coming down the cable like that you won't be alone in seeing it.
Chris
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