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[radioheadrule83]

Thanks for the spoiler tag seismologist.

Did anyone hear about TV antennas picking up the DS and displaying one of the screens on your TV? It's very faint, so nothing spectacular, but interesting nonetheless.

http://forums.warppipe.com/viewtopic.php?t=13217&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Posted by DarthWufei in the DS launch thread. If real, why on earth would the DS be doing this? Curious no?

Sorry if old, tried a search.

 

[lexi]

Weird, surely something like that wouldn't be incidental, right?

Maybe something to do with Revolution, though I'm throwing out some rampant speculation, there.

 

[Ruud_Luiten]

hmm.. I used to have a pirate NES player which also had the described 'problem'. My sister could see me playing on her television in the next room (small dither).

 

[Ecrofirt]

Wouldn't that not pass FCC (i think it's the FCC anyway) regulations? I'm pretty sure there's laws about being able to broadcast onto TVs.

 

[Lhadatt]

Wouldn't that not pass FCC (i think it's the FCC anyway) regulations? I'm pretty sure there's laws about being able to broadcast onto TVs.

Not necessarily "laws" as far as I know, just FCC regulations (which are as good as laws really). If some DS units are leaking their signals, then the FCC will probably just let Nintendo off the hook if they fix the problem in the next batch.

Assuming, of course, that Michael Powell catches it.

 

[DDayton]

Well, I can confirm that the DS screens (upper AND lower) can appear on a television screen. I just dug up an old color television and put the DS next to the antenna... channel 13 has a slowly shifting black & white outline of the DS display... it pans diagonally downward, and both the upper and lower screens appear.

Works in GBA mode, too.

 

[Deleted member 284]

Well, I can confirm that the DS screens (upper AND lower) can appear on a television screen. I just dug up an old color television and put the DS next to the antenna... channel 13 has a slowly shifting black & white outline of the DS display... it pans diagonally downward, and both the upper and lower screens appear.

Works in GBA mode, too.

Probably has to do with the same kind of issue that occurs when wireless phones and 802.11 devices conflict with one another.

 

[M3wThr33]

This only happens on devices that aren't FCC compliant. For Nintendo to be breaking the ruling, the device displaying the interferance has to be FCC compliant, too.

 

[Joe]

NINTENDO TS?

:O