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  Anonymous Coward, 4 Jan 2005 @ 7:28pm

  
  

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  this is old news.... about 4 years ago I was at an upscale hotel in Zurich, Switzerland. This hotel had the "Interactive TV" feature, where for some ungodly sum of money, you could surf/send email/etc.
  
  Late one night, while channel flipping, I came to the "Web" Station, and it had crashed, with a German dialog box (Windows). The *really* bad part was that the background on the screen was a mosaic of "kiddie porn" pictures, and every TV in the hotel had this until the next morning when someone finally noticed it.
  

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  Anonymous Coward, 5 Jan 2005 @ 1:49am

  
  

  Hexadecimal crashdump on tv

  A few months ago Tim Bray wrote about his crashing satelite receiver: KrashTV. He also discusses the usability problems it has when it doesn't crash.

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    Anonymous Coward, 5 Jan 2005 @ 10:57am

    
    

    Re: Hexadecimal crashdump on tv

    This is what I worry about with VoIP. If everything is coming over one pipe, how do you contact the provider when something goes wrong with the pipe? People pick up the phone and expect it to work all the time, unless a wire is physically broken somewhere. I can't count the number of times my broadband connection has gone down for no reason and I had to walk through some troubleshooting steps with the support person to figure out whether it was on my end or theirs.

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