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Pirate television {Wikipedia} A pirate television station is a broadcast TV station that operates without official or government licensing. Like its counterpart pirate radio, the term pirate TV lacks a specific universal interpretation. It implies a form of broadcasting that is unwelcome by the licensing authorities within the territory where its signals are received, especially when the country of transmission is the same as the country of reception. When the area of transmission is not a country, or when it is a country and the transmissions are not illegal, those same broadcast signals may be deemed illegal in the country of reception. Therefore "pirate TV" can mean many things to many people. Pirate television stations may also be known as "bootleg TV", or confused with licensed LPTV or amateur television services.

Homebrew Broadcasting ~ Pirate Radio and TV Broadcasting Techniques: This compilation is freely distributable. All the plans and schematics have been tested, but the author cannot guarantee their functionality. A basic knowledge of electronics is assumed. When in doubt, ask an experienced person. The material in this book is presented for educational purposes only. Read on and enjoy!

How To Save Analog Television - Pirate TV This Instructable will show you how to create your own fully-fledged low-power analog television channel, with any video source(including your computer) as a source of content. We created one that went live the minute analog TV went dead. We're still the only analog station in NYC, but please join us in making more!! Long live analog TV. http://OMGimon.TV {NOTE: Don't usually link to pay-per-view websites, but this is one site that entices you in with partial info then withholds the good stuff until you sign up for paid access. Not a criticism, per-se, just letting you know...} See also Turn your VCR into an RF or A/V Transmitter: This is pretty simple. Shove an aerial in the back of the ouput of a vcr. And tune your TV in. However this method looks terrible and only works at about 1 metre. This doesn't stop anyone from sticking in a TV Amplifier. That would be illegal but only semi-illegal because the frequency used by the VCR is for VCR's so the problem of your signal clouding someone elses directly plugged in VCR, is not really a problem. You can even use the AV input of your VCR and the AV or RF output of another VCR to send DVD around your house.

Build an analog TV station With the transition to digital TV, the FCC has abandoned the old analog format. Luckily, you can take advantage of this and set up your own analog TV station. The FCC has a tool on their site to see what channels are open in your area to broadcast in. To broadcast, you need a TV transmitter, but cheap short-range models can be found on eBay or made at home [pdf]. Once you have a transmitter, you can pump in a video source, either your own content or videos from youtube. One group, OMGimontv is showcasing popular youtube clips on channel 14 in New York. On their site, users can vote for what clips they want to see. Although this isn’t as simple as making a radio station, it still has a lot of potential.

Remember, Remember the 22nd of November Written by Alan Bellows on 19 November 2007. On 22 November 1987, sports anchor Dan Roan of Chicago’s WGN-TV News Network was narrating the video of the day’s football highlights when something highly unusual happened. The pictures on the station monitors in the studio suddenly began to jitter and twitch. Across Chicago, countless other televisions did the same, as Dan’s clips of the Bears game were lost in a brief flurry of static and replaced with the sinister, grinning visage of Max Headroom. Most viewers were familiar with the techno-stuttering character from the recently canceled television program bearing his name, and from advertisements for the New Coke soft drink. But there was something unsettling and surreal about this rubber-masked imposter. Further info: Footage of the Doctor Who interruption | Newscast following the incident | The story of Captain Midnight | Wikipedia: Max Headroom

HowStuffWorks - Televisions Have you ever wondered about the technology that makes television possible? How is it that dozens or hundreds of channels of full-motion video arrive at your house, in many cases for free? How does your television decode the signals to produce the picture? How will the new digital television signals change things? If you have ever wondered about your television (or, for that matter, about your computer monitor), then read on! In this article, we'll answer all of these questions and more.

How to connect your PC to your HDTV Now that we all know how to get OTA HD , we need to know how to connect our HTPC to our HDTV, so that we can watch our free HD in all its glory.

Is HDTV Complex Enough- Some people like to know the HDTV subject in detail before making their purchase; they research an overwhelming volume of technical background and specifications, they feel as earning a PhD in HDTV.

Get set as industry switches to digital TV For the last 10 days I've been watching a rare bird - a standard-definition digital television, or SDTV.

Pirate TV in eastern Europe TELEVISION HAS PLAYED an increasingly significant role in the downfall of Eastern Europe's one-party states. In Poland underground pirate video transmissions kept Solidarity alive for nearly 10 years. Last fall, East Germans judged the effects of their anti-government demonstrations by watching the coverage they received on West German news programs. In Romania, control of the television station is tantamount to control of the government. [Link recovered 5/1/11]

Digit - Features - Pirate TV As we move to a world where all entertainment is delivered digitally, the battle over copyright protection is turning into a full-blown war. And consumer rights may end up being the biggest casualty as media companies hunker down and try to redefine what users can and can’t do with the content they’ve paid for and the hardware they own.

Berkeley Daily Planet The television monitors, DVD players and amplifiers in Free Radio Berkeley’s West Oakland warehouse are more than just a jumble of hardware. They’re the parts to a TV channel, and the newest wave in micropower media—low wattage, garage-style broadcasting, sometimes referred to as pirate radio, that usually operates without a license.

DIYmedia.net News Archive: June 2005 A series of news blips.

405 Alive - History - Pirate Television Probably the first reference to pirate television (in Britain at least) comes, amusingly, in the 1940 film Band Waggon, in which Arthur Askey and ‘Stinker Murdoch’ establish a pirate television station in opposition to the BBC...

a quick and dirty guide to diy media: broadcasting There's a certain romance about pirate broadcasting. Maybe it's the thrill of being a rebel and taking a stand against the Federal Communications Commission. Or maybe it's that Christian Slater movie. Either way broadcasting is fun and exciting and there are lots of ways to do it- most of them legal.

Pirate Chinese TV defies state Chased from province to province, fined, threatened with closure - yet a pirate Chinese TV station continues to evade officials and find increasing popularity with its village audiences.

Mutiny on the Airwaves I know - this is about pirate radio, but I found it while surfing for PTV. It includes the statement, "The equipment to broadcast television is a bit more extensive and expensive than radio but not very hard to work with. Your biggest expense most likely will be your camera, or your jail sentence. Just kidding! If you transmit less than 15 minutes at a time, you can't get tracked down by the FCC. They usually need to be clued in to your transmissions by your own attempts at publicity or a complaint from someone picking up your signal. Most people get off for their first offense."

Tiny Television The very presence of pirate radio and TV stations has forced changes in the law. In Prague, Radio Stalin took up residence in the base of a toppled Stalin statue. It proved so popular that no one dared shut it down. Consequently, new laws were written and there are now hundreds of tiny radio stations in the Czech Republic. In Russia, Ukraine and many other places, tiny local stations became so popular that government attempts to shut them down failed, and they now exist legally. [Link recovered 5/1/11]

Broadband-Television.com - Your Guide to Broadband TV and Radio ... and Broadcast Live - Radio and Television from Around the World and The Jeff Pulver Blog: Jeff's Quick Guide to TV on the Net (TV/IP)

Why Make Your own Private Pirate TV Station? “Freedom is fostered when the means of communication are dispersed, decentralized, and easily available, as are printing presses or microcomputers. Central control is more likely when the means of communication are concentrated, monopolized, and scarce, as are great networks. (…) The onus is on us to determine whether free societies in the twenty-first century will conduct electronic communication under the conditions of freedom established for the domain of print through centuries of struggle, or whether that great achievement will become lost in a confusion about new technologies.” Technologies of Freedom, Ithiel de Sola Pool (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984) Here are some video’s of the workshop: Video of the workshop 36 min, ogg/theora, 384 x 288, 500 kbps, 142 mb. A short (and incomplete) history of tv hacking 35 min, ogg/theora, 384 x 288, 500 kbps, 136 mb.

To explain how to construct the station they produced a small zine with instructions. Here you can download an A4 file (150k, PDF) Print this out doublesided, fold it according to the instructions below and there you have your beautiful pocket size manual. Carmen adds instructions: When you print the zine, it is important to print full size (do not scale to paper size) in order for the front / back and the cutting mark to fit. Here are some links on how to fold the pocket zine (or also make an own one). There are several sources who claim to be the inventors of the pocket zine, these are the two best: Sam Proof on Youtube.com and Elizabeth Genco on Flickr.com

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