• @realaether@lemmy.world
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    11 year ago

    Would it have been possible for the speakers of the time to emit those frequencies? Imagining the equivalent of a Twitch raid: “I’m done broadcasting so I’m going to send you to the next channel.”

    • Rob T Firefly
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      01 year ago

      It would have been possible, but it would have been expensive and required electricity to work. The fact that they accomplished their goal with what amounts to a set of tiny spring-powered mechanical bells is a marvel.

      • @realaether@lemmy.world
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        21 year ago

        I meant it more in the sense of one channel, when shutting down for the night, emitting the “next channel” tone such that every viewer’s set would change to a channel that was still broadcasting.

    • FartsWithAnAccentOP
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      01 year ago

      Not really sure, doesn’t seem like they’d bother to deaign speakers that make sounds we can’t hear or broadcast them but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t possible