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"Film at 11:00"
At 11:00 DST on non-DST ?
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That reminded me of picture of BSOD on TVs at airplane waiting areas.
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So would it be at 11:00 plus/minus an hour?
I guess if you lived on the border of a time zone, it could be 11:00 plus/minus 2 hours.
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Okay, who else just tried to click the "Ok" button on that picture?
I'll admit it. I'm a dork.
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I saw one of those in the international airport in Rome when my wife and I traveled to Italy. It was quite surprising, and a little bit freaky.
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So this guys TV is running windows? WTF?
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OMFG! Everything they said about Y2.007194520547K is true!
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I wouldn't be surprised to see this on my TV at all; I have a media center (running Windows MCE).
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Look at the bright side, at least it doesn't say:
"We just pushed another patch to your system to fix another bug. We will reboot your machine in 5 seconds. Please save all of your work."
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So this tv network is using a windows based computer to provide content trough the tv-out port. Or maybe this pic is from someone who has a tv tuner on the pc plus a tv-out to tv.
Anyway, which time is the move on ??
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since when did they get computers in Arkansas?
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The REAL WTF (sigh I couldn't stop myself) is that nobody uses film anymore. It's all digital/analog tape or solid state digital media anymore.
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The real question is whether this dialog was displayed by a Media Center PC DVR or by the channel broadcasting the show.
The real WTF is why anyone would watch Fox news.
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The phrase is "Daylight Saving Time". Singular. Thank you, that is all.
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yeah, it really is a WTF that we as a society made advances to improve quality of sound/picture
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It's CBS.
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It's the TV station who's giving the message, not the TV. If he was using MCE, you wouldn't get that message, since NT-based versions of Windows have never given that message (at least since NT4, not entirely sure about older versions).
There was a funny bug with this on the Dutch versions of Win9x (that actually still exists in the Dutch version of Windows Mobile 5). In Dutch, we don't say "Daylight Savings Time", we say "zomertijd" (summer time) and "wintertijd" (winter time). But since Windows has only the one message for this, it would always say "De klok is aangepast aan de zomertijd" (the clock has been adjusted to summer time) even at the start of winter time.
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I tried bringing the message box to focus first, so I could read it better.
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That reminds me of the Barcelona metro. They have some kind of "Metro TV", but it would frequently show a Windows "Low on Virtual Memory" error message. Always made me smile.
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The same people that click OK to those fake windows banner ads saying "Click on this windows-style looking alert to make your Internets move faster! [Ok][Cancel]"
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Years ago my local cable provider used an Amiga to deliver content to the "info channel". I found this out when the info channel displayed a Guru Meditation :-)
Later I moved, where the TV greeted me with the BSOD of Windows 95.
In both cases I waited and looked at the person rebooting the machine and starting the presentations - I obviously have no life.
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I've seen some local public access or information channels displaying just the windows taskbar at the bottom of the screen for long periods of time.
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Just change it already....
http://lifehacker.com/software/windows/get-rid-of-windows-update-restart-nag-183976.php
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.. I meant that in reference to the person that mentioned the windows update restart pending notification ..
I forgot to quote it.
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The pop-up window is being broadcast by the TV station. It's not on the end-user's device.
I think that's the only way this would be a WTF, so that must be what it is (because TDWTF never posts articles where there's no WTF, right? right?
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http://www.hvcomputer.com/temp/wtf-tv.jpg
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Eh, that was CBS there, Mr. Rather.
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My IPTV provider has some sort of 'music channel' or 'radio' as they call it, where they play music 24/7. It is usually accompanied by the sight of a windows desktop with windows media player, displaying the same error message over and over again (something about a certain file not fount...;))
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Here's what I think is happening. They have a PC that outputs the 'technical difficulties' banner continuously so they can switch to that whenever they need it. They're not using Windows to feed their channel per se - they just have a dedicated pc outputting that one frame so the engineers have some feed to switch to when there are problems.
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Ours does that as well. There's appearently a popular software package for running cable info channels that runs under windows. I've also seen it reboot a couple of times :-)
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TRWTF is that they're using Win9x for a critical system.
Mmm... tacos (captcha). Dammit, now I'm hungry again.
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This was not from a media PC; it was broadcast. If it had been a message from my media PC I would have 1) taken a screenshot and 2) not submitted it here because it wouldn't have been a WTF. I might have skipped step one.
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I remember seeing the Guru Meditation error on my local "community" station. Now it's just boring windows.
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I have a Cancel button on my wooden table, me too.
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No, apparently the TV station is running Windows to do their screen cards. And I imagine the station manager wasn't too happy with whoever's responsible for that box.
Chris Mattern
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No, you're Paula Bean.
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To me, the WTF is that they are simply using video out on the main display to broadcast their message. This is akin to creating a service that interacts with the desktop - it's bad form. I'm fairly certain that most professional compositing tools send only the desired video stream to the output, not the user interface itself. This is like using Windows Media Player to play an MP3 and using the 1/4 jacks to record directly to cassette tape, then browsing the Internet and getting a whole bunch of Windows interface sounds recorded along with the MP3.
In this case, it looks like the station used Powerpoint to display a single slide and just used the analog out on their display adapter to pump the image into the broadcast stream. Cheap and effective, but prone to non-professional results such as this.
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It's freakingly common to see windows error messages on various media. The only one that really curdled my blood was seeing Windows embedded or smth displaying a GPF warning dialog on an ATM machine in finland. Handling money is the last thing I would let windows touch.
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You can do this kind of thing for yourself. All you need is a TV-card and watch TV during the time the time-change is happening. The popup-window might come from the locally running windows being shown over the tv-program being shown in fullscreen-mode.
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As noted it usually seems to be the public-access or equally crappy stations that I've seen stuff like this on. I've seen error messages, desktops - stuff you know you arent supposed ot be seeing on a tv. And they wonder why public access gets a bad rap for being amateurish.
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I've actually done that. (Also when recording streaming audio direct to hard drive. I mean wait, I don't do that.) And then you play it back and think someone has IM'd you, only to realize after a moment of confusion what happened.
Then again, I'm a student and I have no money.
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The college station was frequently hit by the notorious "net send" spam that was frequent a few years ago. Always good for a laugh.
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This is like how Optus use Powerpoint on their satellite "tuning" channel (on Optus B3 and C1). You can see the little transparent menu button thing at the bottom corner.
If you were to watch it long enough you would probably get to see some odd things like dialogs, BSODs, reboots, etc.
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WTF#1 (the root WTF) DST is still in practice in the Western world. WTF#2 Windows keeps time internally in localtime, subject to DST adjustments, rather than in UTC. WTF#3 Windows doesn't separate the video output from the desktop screen. (X11 is capable of using separate screens and displays. So, it's possible to have one screen output dedicated to TV output, and another screen to controlling the video mixing, etc. Even with only one screen/display, one may still use virtual desktops to avoid having messages displayed on top of video output.)