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shardian:
I just remembered about this and meant to post to see WTF was going on. Anyways, I had a friend tell me that he could get the PS2 in his bedroom to show up on his TV, even though the ps2 was just sitting there and not hooked up to the TV. Of course, I figured he was full of it or missing something. I was at his house one day and he showed it to me. Sure enough, the A/V cables were just dangling there and the PS2 load screen was there on the tv plain as day, but with a bit of fuzziness.

My question to the electronics gurus is what happened? Is the PS2's cables acting as a sort of antenna and being picked up by the TV's tuner??

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shardian on January 22, 2008, 03:59:11 pm ---My question to the electronics gurus is what happened? Is the PS2's cables acting as a sort of antenna and being picked up by the TV's tuner??

--- End quote ---


Hell no... turn that PS2 off and watch the screen remain.  He'd have to be using RF to have any slight theoritical hope for that to happen AND have the TV on channel 3 AND have his underwear in his mouth.

shardian:
I believe it was using a RF converter box. I'd have to ask to verify.

shardian:
Ok, it is a older Sanyo TV, and a Mad Katz rf converter box. The PS2 is hooked to the converter, and the converter just sits on top of the TV without being hooked up to the TV at all. There is nothing plugged into the coax connection of the TV. There is full audio and video. In fact, he has even watched movies with this setup.

I tell you, I would have NEVER believed him if I hadn't seen it myself.

ChadTower:

I wonder if the device is malfunctioning and sending out radio waves.  You know how you always see on the back of electronics something like "this device must not create harmful electromagnetic interference and must accept all interference it receives"...

Something in this area.

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