My mobile rang... My tv started doing things?

User45701

Im watching star trek 3 and my mate rang my mobile which was right beside my tv remote, anyway it pixel shifted, then muted and then changed from AV3 to HDMI and then went to AV3 and unmuted and pixel shifted again?
Very odd has anyone encountered this before

I didnt even know what was going on it was only when i went to pick up my remote i saw my phone flahsing because it was on silent, when i picked it up it all stopped. Ive never even heard of this? when i was in a appartment my next door neibghour had some mad remote as he worked a philips but all his remote could do when he was at home was change the channcel up one and down one - nothing else

aidan_walsh

Is this the first time you've noticed this happening?

User45701

Ye, very odd. Can mobiles do this to TV signals? have you heard of this happening before

aidan_walsh

Is it a radio based remote or an IR one?

User45701

Ir

Gary ITR

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User45701

Happned again today. Very strange but i suppose its easy to fix all i have to do is just not put my phone beside my remote

Sherifu

Is it too soon to talk about Aliens? Never heard of it happening. But it does seem to much of a coincidence not be the phone.

PogMoThoin

Ask a mod to move this to the paranormal forum

Hagar

I know my mobile regularly causes a morse code type sound on my car radio.
And my monitor is distorted just a second before my phone rings if it's nearby on the desktop.

byte

I've often had my phone interfere with TV's (lines and distorted sound) and radios (distorted sound). Particularly the radio, the morsecode thing happens before it rings, so you know a call is coming (or if in car, the phone communicates with a new cell).

In your case, the phone is seemingly interfering with the electronics in your remote control.

highlydebased

Mobile signals distort CRT monitors, and produce those morse code type noises. Its incredibly annoying, as I leave my phone on the desk next to one of my computer speakers.....

Makaveli

When I get messages it occasionally makes my browser go back a page. Annoying to say the least.

DonJose

Same thing happens with my PC speakers, I know I'm going to get a call before the phone rings as my PC speakers start making a funny noise a few seconds before the phone rings.

Snowbat

The GSM buzzing interference is a side effect of TDMA:

A disadvantage of TDMA systems is that they create interference at a frequency which is directly connected to the timeslot length. This is the buzz which can sometimes be heard if a GSM phone is left next to a radio or speakers.

RF induced currents can cause electronics to act strangely. Anyone who had a CB radio fitted in their vehicle will tell you how easy it was to trigger nearby car alarms just by transmitting while driving past. A transmitting cellphone causing a nearby remote control to sense a button press sounds plausible to me.

SeanW

Yeah, I get the whole Morse Code effect when having a mobile next to the TV or speakers too - some kind of Electro Magnetic Interference problem I think.