From what I understand about cable TV technology (very limited) is that the signal is sensitive because it's cramed full of data into a limited frequency range.
When these emergency broadcasts go across they can sometimes lock up subscriber boxes (cable box) becasue it overloads the frequency just enough to trigger some mechanism to shut down the data stream. Our cable box does this sometimes when there is a really long alert.
Looks like this "test" will be 5minutes long. That could definitely trigger many boxes to lock up.
Yep. When they say "emergency broadcast" thats those anoying loud alerts that have the computerized voice that runs a ticker across the bottom with information. Those only happen if you have a cable box for cable TV. I imagine same for Sattelite (I don't have one so I dont know)
Streaming stuff is based off the internet. Even though you might have cable internet (and a cable modem box) alerts will not scroll across your computer screen from your cable provider.
Now with the streaming stuff I don't know how they handle alerts. Maybe they could be pressured from the FCC to comply and add the alert to their streams. Or maybe the source stream they get migth have the broadcast and they have no choice in the matter.
From what I understand about cable TV technology (very limited) is that the signal is sensitive because it's cramed full of data into a limited frequency range.
When these emergency broadcasts go across they can sometimes lock up subscriber boxes (cable box) becasue it overloads the frequency just enough to trigger some mechanism to shut down the data stream. Our cable box does this sometimes when there is a really long alert.
Looks like this "test" will be 5minutes long. That could definitely trigger many boxes to lock up.
So this only applies to cable tv then? I don't have cable or satellite. Streaming thorugh roku.
Yep. When they say "emergency broadcast" thats those anoying loud alerts that have the computerized voice that runs a ticker across the bottom with information. Those only happen if you have a cable box for cable TV. I imagine same for Sattelite (I don't have one so I dont know)
Streaming stuff is based off the internet. Even though you might have cable internet (and a cable modem box) alerts will not scroll across your computer screen from your cable provider.
Now with the streaming stuff I don't know how they handle alerts. Maybe they could be pressured from the FCC to comply and add the alert to their streams. Or maybe the source stream they get migth have the broadcast and they have no choice in the matter.