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That’s great!
Now I need to go check my boxes.
Are we not surprised? Smile and don’t fart for the camera! 🙂 Cheeeeeeeesey!
It is glued to a mounting bracket with not leads coming out of it. FAIL.
Oh my… and it will broadcast me nude, eating cheesepuffs watching desperate housewives of Orange County Choppers back to through the antenna… oh wait, nevermind.
if you’re that worried, put it in a box and operate it manually.
if this is genuine, then it is a great one for Crackpot (Adam Curry) in the No Agenda netcast 🙂
Just what do they hope to see?
And you thought us Brits were bad. That is more big brother than we have. . . . . well almost.
Why would the government do this when they can just beat down your door, handcuff you, then shoot you in the back and kill you, and the only chance you have for justice is if someone could intercept this video signal?
I say hoax actually. How would the video/audio feed leave the box? As I understand, these boxes recieve a broadcast signal and output it to your TV. They have no broadcast capability and the reason for having these is that you do not have cable hooked up.
I could be mistaken on this – hearing scraps of news from across the pond. . . . I make assumptions on the need for these boxes.
Here’s the basic problem with the Internet…any fucking moron can post to it.
Now I will have to get stoned in a V mask.
Mounted on a transformer. Ya, great design. Hoax.
Hoax. Why the hell does this crap get posted?
By the way…my comment was directed at the moron that created the hoax video…not Uncle Dave’s posting here.
Actually Dvorak knows more about you than the government ever could.
Where’s that BS measuring device that is suppose to go with this kind of post
Nice job falling for the hoax, dipstick!
If you weren’t so late to the party, you’d know Wired already spoke to the hoaxer. Try to keep up next time.
this was proven a fake a couple days ago. the so called camera wasn’t attached to anything by wire.
sorry john but you’re late on this one too. if i can find that link that shows what they did i’ll send it to ya.
Laughably obvious, so why am I posting? For the same reason as the rest of these nimrods…
that is not a real board from a dtv box I used to “work ” on them and have pulled eproms and jtagged dozens and that is not a dtv board it is a cheap piece bought at radio shack with a few glued on parts to look real
Ha ha ha ha ha! That is just a decoy … you’ll never find where we really hid the cameras …
I just wonder what type of stupid, numb-nuts, idiotic, brain-dead, asshole goes to the trouble to make a video like that.
Oh, did I forget to post a link to the article?
My bad.
and Obama is a US citizen…
I suspected a hoax from the beginning, not because I know anyting about his stuff, (I don’t), but I have learned to be very suspicious of stuff on the Internet.
Best comment so far is #22.
Macs have a built in webcam and people love it. But when its not on an apple product people hate it. Whats wrong with the world, do people not like suprises anymore?
Clearly a hoax.
What worries me is that someday soon people will feel insecure when they DONT have a camera watching them. If only Orwell and Huxley could see us now.
… made by a magnavox competitor.
1. CCD camera ARE IR sensors..
2. WOW and you think they have a 1 mile range?? DOUBT IT!!
3. Go for it, MOUNT your CCD ON A TRANSFORMER..
4. the other thing he pointed at, is the LED POWER ON light..
And you wonder WHY its out of focus..
My comment goes like this…
$2-5 worth of PARTS sold to you for $40-60..
No audio balance,
NO direct channel tuning, you can go to channel 11-2,11-3, directly..11-1 first, then channel up.