[mrsea]

You know it’s funny but every time I think people can’t be that gullible someone comes along and proves me wrong. LOL

[gnm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Hermes', 'T')his appears to be a hoax. The person who made the video is probably messing with people.

[Jotapay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gnm', 'T')hats for the remote - the "lens" is probably an infrared receiver for the remote...

[pedalling_faster]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'I')f you take apart your microwave you will also find a camera and a proctologists probe in there I kid you not.

[Jotapay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mrsea', 'Y')ou know it’s funny but every time I think people can’t be that gullible someone comes along and proves me wrong. LOL

[Hermes]

Jotapay:

There's something I think you're missing here.

This guy in the video could very well open up his HDTV converter box, and show us real mini cameras and microphones. I'm not disputing that, and I don't think many people at the link I referenced debated that.

HOWEVER if this guy goes to Radio Shack, buys a mini camera lens and mini microphone, comes back home and opens up his HDTV converter box, crams them in there, solders them to some random spot, closes up the box ...

... and then videos himself opening up the thing and showing us how there is a camera and a microphone in it...

then what?

[gnm]

Never mind that the converter boxes have no way of sending information out or otherwise recording it. Mine is connected to a deep fringe antenna via a one way noise limiter/booster amp.

That "camera" actually looks like one of those mini piezoelectric speakers.

-G

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', 'C')an you take a pic? This one is a Magnavox. The Magnavox lens definitely looks like a camera. I'm going to take my Scientific American apart, I think. It's an actual DVR.

[dinopello]

Camera's are in everything these days. Watch where you light your bong!

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', 'S')econd pic. See clear circle in plastic fascia in front of camera.

[jasonraymondson]

I must be just as gullible, because I was thinking that it wouldn't surprise me.

[Pretorian]

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[Pops]

Even though you Alcoa hats will be the first to expire from the most mundane cause, you are a great comic relief from the tasks of prudent folks.

Tap into that converter box and send us the pic of your living room!

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'E')ven though you Alcoa hats will be the first to expire from the most mundane cause, you are a great comic relief from the tasks of prudent folks.

Tap into that converter box and send us the pic of your living room!

[HeckuvaJob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'O')K.....I'm turning on the secret camera and adjusting the cable on the HDTV converter box....transmitting pic of my room NOW!

[timmac]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', 'I')'ve heard that the Scientific Atlantic HDTV receivers that Time Warner cable uses have cameras and/or microphones in them. I've always meant to take mine apart and look.

Well, this guy took apart a Magnavox digital TV converter box that everyone who has an old analog television is going to need to watch the new HD-only TV signal when all TV broadcasts convert to digital high-definition in a few months. The box has a camera and microphone right up front there, as you can see.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ4iIM8Eljc

Tyler_JC, is this another instance (re: the Facebook datamining) where you don't care about how the corporations/government spy on your everyday life in your own home?

[Jakeemon]

You guys are missing the big picture, these units are receivers NOT transmitters. Even if they were installing cameras and mics, how do they get that information back to the facist dictators? It is relatively easy to pick up a signal using basic electronics, but a whole nuther ball game to transmit.

1) Where are they transmitting to? A satellite? Don't think so!! Land based receiver? Maybe but the range would be very limited going by the size of the box.

2) Imagine the tetrabytes of information they would receive from each box, and how do they screen it all for useful information? All the would get out of mine is me scracthing my balls every twenty mins.

Come on guys I love a good conspiracy theory but this one sucks.

[Jotapay]

The news outlet that posted the original YouTube video went and bought one of the receivers to check it out for themselves. They found nothing, it was a fake.

I'VE BEEN HAD.

[timmac]

No shit, You Think,

[Jotapay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('timmac', 'N')o shit, You Think,