I went with some friends on Thanksgiving to a bar I never was at before.
The bar's landline phone was ringing often, I guess people wanted to
know if they were open on the holiday. Anyhow, we were watching football
on their tv, and everytime the phone rang, the caller's phone number
appeared on the TV screen. Below the phone number it either said their
location (city or town), or else it showed the name of the cellular
company.

I never knew such a thing existed. How the heck does a phone number end
up on TV? That seems really bizarre. I asked the bartender how that
works, but he said he did not know. I did find out their tv signal is
from a satellite dish but that's all I know.

Has anyone ever seen such a thing?
How does it work?

On 2015-11-28 6:21 PM, wrote:
I went with some friends on Thanksgiving to a bar I never was at before.
The bar's landline phone was ringing often, I guess people wanted to
know if they were open on the holiday. Anyhow, we were watching football
on their tv, and everytime the phone rang, the caller's phone number
appeared on the TV screen. Below the phone number it either said their
location (city or town), or else it showed the name of the cellular
company.

I never knew such a thing existed. How the heck does a phone number end
up on TV? That seems really bizarre. I asked the bartender how that
works, but he said he did not know. I did find out their tv signal is
from a satellite dish but that's all I know.

Has anyone ever seen such a thing?
How does it work?


Yep, got it on my TV Bell Canada satellite TV, phone line plugs into the
satellite box, also can be used for ordering PPV shows.

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On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 17:21:55 -0600, wrote:

I went with some friends on Thanksgiving to a bar I never was at before.
The bar's landline phone was ringing often, I guess people wanted to
know if they were open on the holiday. Anyhow, we were watching football
on their tv, and everytime the phone rang, the caller's phone number
appeared on the TV screen. Below the phone number it either said their
location (city or town), or else it showed the name of the cellular
company.

I never knew such a thing existed. How the heck does a phone number end
up on TV? That seems really bizarre. I asked the bartender how that
works, but he said he did not know. I did find out their tv signal is
from a satellite dish but that's all I know.

Has anyone ever seen such a thing?
How does it work?


Century Link service has it (ASDL). We can go back to the logs to see
them, too, and then delete the calls. Both incoming and outgoing
calls.

This is America. We know stuff.
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On 11/28/2015 6:21 PM, wrote:
I went with some friends on Thanksgiving to a bar I never was at before.
The bar's landline phone was ringing often, I guess people wanted to
know if they were open on the holiday. Anyhow, we were watching football
on their tv, and everytime the phone rang, the caller's phone number
appeared on the TV screen. Below the phone number it either said their
location (city or town), or else it showed the name of the cellular
company.

I never knew such a thing existed. How the heck does a phone number end
up on TV? That seems really bizarre. I asked the bartender how that
works, but he said he did not know. I did find out their tv signal is
from a satellite dish but that's all I know.

Has anyone ever seen such a thing?
How does it work?


I have Comcast triple play (TV, internet and phone) and number shows up
but only on my HD sets.

Frank wrote:
On 11/28/2015 6:21 PM, wrote:
I went with some friends on Thanksgiving to a bar I never was at before.
The bar's landline phone was ringing often, I guess people wanted to
know if they were open on the holiday. Anyhow, we were watching football
on their tv, and everytime the phone rang, the caller's phone number
appeared on the TV screen. Below the phone number it either said their
location (city or town), or else it showed the name of the cellular
company.

I never knew such a thing existed. How the heck does a phone number end
up on TV? That seems really bizarre. I asked the bartender how that
works, but he said he did not know. I did find out their tv signal is
from a satellite dish but that's all I know.

Has anyone ever seen such a thing?
How does it work?


I have Comcast triple play (TV, internet and phone) and number shows up but only
on my HD sets.
It just started on my TV with Verizon FiOS with Digital Voice. I suspect that
this started when I enabled Simultaneous Ring which is required to use NOMOROBO
service.

On 11/28/2015 7:24 PM, Arnie Goetchius wrote:
Frank wrote:
On 11/28/2015 6:21 PM, wrote:
I went with some friends on Thanksgiving to a bar I never was at before.
The bar's landline phone was ringing often, I guess people wanted to
know if they were open on the holiday. Anyhow, we were watching football
on their tv, and everytime the phone rang, the caller's phone number
appeared on the TV screen. Below the phone number it either said their
location (city or town), or else it showed the name of the cellular
company.

I never knew such a thing existed. How the heck does a phone number end
up on TV? That seems really bizarre. I asked the bartender how that
works, but he said he did not know. I did find out their tv signal is
from a satellite dish but that's all I know.

Has anyone ever seen such a thing?
How does it work?


I have Comcast triple play (TV, internet and phone) and number shows up but only
on my HD sets.
It just started on my TV with Verizon FiOS with Digital Voice. I suspect that
this started when I enabled Simultaneous Ring which is required to use NOMOROBO
service.


No idea how it got there or if we had to do anything to set it up.

It is convenient in not having to get up and look at caller id on the phone.

On 11/28/2015 6:21 PM, wrote:
I went with some friends on Thanksgiving to a bar I never was at before.
The bar's landline phone was ringing often, I guess people wanted to
know if they were open on the holiday. Anyhow, we were watching football
on their tv, and everytime the phone rang, the caller's phone number
appeared on the TV screen. Below the phone number it either said their
location (city or town), or else it showed the name of the cellular
company.

I never knew such a thing existed. How the heck does a phone number end
up on TV? That seems really bizarre. I asked the bartender how that
works, but he said he did not know. I did find out their tv signal is
from a satellite dish but that's all I know.

Has anyone ever seen such a thing?
How does it work?



Some cable companies provide that when you get phone and
cable TV through the same company.

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On 11/28/2015 06:21 PM, wrote:

I went with some friends on Thanksgiving to a bar I never was at before.
The bar's landline phone was ringing often, I guess people wanted to
know if they were open on the holiday. Anyhow, we were watching football
on their tv, and everytime the phone rang, the caller's phone number
appeared on the TV screen. Below the phone number it either said their
location (city or town), or else it showed the name of the cellular
company.

I never knew such a thing existed. How the heck does a phone number end
up on TV? That seems really bizarre. I asked the bartender how that
works, but he said he did not know. I did find out their tv signal is
from a satellite dish but that's all I know.

Has anyone ever seen such a thing?
How does it work?

That was an optional setting in the DirecTV receivers (at least the
early ones) as long as we had a phone line connected to them.

Perce

On Saturday, November 28, 2015 at 5:24:28 PM UTC-6, wrote:
I went with some friends on Thanksgiving to a bar I never was at before.
The bar's landline phone was ringing often, I guess people wanted to
know if they were open on the holiday. Anyhow, we were watching football
on their tv, and everytime the phone rang, the caller's phone number
appeared on the TV screen. Below the phone number it either said their
location (city or town), or else it showed the name of the cellular
company.

I never knew such a thing existed. How the heck does a phone number end
up on TV? That seems really bizarre. I asked the bartender how that
works, but he said he did not know. I did find out their tv signal is
from a satellite dish but that's all I know.

Has anyone ever seen such a thing?
How does it work?

I'm not sure about now but it was built in feature of some of the older big screen and large CRT televisions. Now I'm curious and want to find out if it's in some new smart TV sets instead of just cable boxes. ”�(´€¢_€¢`)”Œ

[8~{} Uncle CID Monster

On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 17:11:20 -0800 (PST), Uncle Monster
wrote:


I'm not sure about now but it was built in feature of some of the older big screen and large CRT televisions. Now I'm curious and want to find out if it's in some new smart TV sets instead of just cable boxes.

My 2006 50" Panasonic never showed it until the service provided it.
The feature even shows on my smaller digital non-HD capable TV.

On Saturday, November 28, 2015 at 8:19:08 PM UTC-6, Oren wrote:
On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 17:11:20 -0800 (PST), Uncle Monster
wrote:


I'm not sure about now but it was built in feature of some of the older big screen and large CRT televisions. Now I'm curious and want to find out if it's in some new smart TV sets instead of just cable boxes.

My 2006 50" Panasonic never showed it until the service provided it.
The feature even shows on my smaller digital non-HD capable TV.

I just remembered, some of those TV sets even let you use them as a hands free telephone. t(ツ)_/¯

[8~{} Uncle TV Monster

On 11/28/2015 5:21 PM, wrote:
I went with some friends on Thanksgiving to a bar I never was at before.
The bar's landline phone was ringing often, I guess people wanted to
know if they were open on the holiday. Anyhow, we were watching football
on their tv, and everytime the phone rang, the caller's phone number
appeared on the TV screen. Below the phone number it either said their
location (city or town), or else it showed the name of the cellular
company.

I never knew such a thing existed. How the heck does a phone number end
up on TV? That seems really bizarre. I asked the bartender how that
works, but he said he did not know. I did find out their tv signal is
from a satellite dish but that's all I know.

Has anyone ever seen such a thing?
How does it work?



When our phone service and tv service went through the same carrier, you
could turn on an option to see caller ID on the tv when the phone rang.

--
Maggie

On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 17:21:55 -0600, wrote:

I went with some friends on Thanksgiving to a bar I never was at before.
The bar's landline phone was ringing often, I guess people wanted to
know if they were open on the holiday. Anyhow, we were watching football
on their tv, and everytime the phone rang, the caller's phone number
appeared on the TV screen. Below the phone number it either said their
location (city or town), or else it showed the name of the cellular
company.

I never knew such a thing existed. How the heck does a phone number end
up on TV? That seems really bizarre. I asked the bartender how that
works, but he said he did not know. I did find out their tv signal is
from a satellite dish but that's all I know.

Has anyone ever seen such a thing?
How does it work?


It is a setup option on Dish TV receivers as long as you have caller
ID on the phone line and I have an old POTS phone. (No Fios or VOIP
phone)

On Saturday, November 28, 2015 at 5:24:28 PM UTC-6, wrote:

we were watching football
on their tv, and everytime the phone rang, the caller's phone number
appeared on the TV screen. Below the phone number it either said their
location (city or town), or else it showed the name of the cellular
company.

I never knew such a thing existed. How the heck does a phone number end
up on TV? That seems really bizarre.

Has anyone ever seen such a thing?
How does it work?


I've had DirecTV for over 10 years and phone numbers have always
showed up on the screen when the phone rings. It will have the
name or company or show unavailable when it appears.

On 11/28/2015 10:12 PM, ItsJoanNotJoann wrote:
On Saturday, November 28, 2015 at 5:24:28 PM UTC-6, wrote:

we were watching football
on their tv, and everytime the phone rang, the caller's phone number
appeared on the TV screen. Below the phone number it either said their
location (city or town), or else it showed the name of the cellular
company.

I never knew such a thing existed. How the heck does a phone number end
up on TV? That seems really bizarre.

Has anyone ever seen such a thing?
How does it work?


I've had DirecTV for over 10 years and phone numbers have always
showed up on the screen when the phone rings. It will have the
name or company or show unavailable when it appears.

When I had a phone and cable service through comcast (VOIP/digital) a
few years ago, incoming numbers and caller ID would show on the bottom
of the screen. It really puzzled me the first time I saw it, as it was
a neighbor calling me and I couldn't help but wonder why my neighbor's
name was on my television screen.

Jon

On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 17:21:55 -0600
wrote:

I went with some friends on Thanksgiving to a bar I never was at
before. The bar's landline phone was ringing often, I guess people
wanted to know if they were open on the holiday. Anyhow, we were
watching football on their tv, and everytime the phone rang, the
caller's phone number appeared on the TV screen. Below the phone
number it either said their location (city or town), or else it
showed the name of the cellular company.

I never knew such a thing existed. How the heck does a phone number
end up on TV? That seems really bizarre. I asked the bartender how
that works, but he said he did not know. I did find out their tv
signal is from a satellite dish but that's all I know.

Has anyone ever seen such a thing?
How does it work?



The bar should have a Thank You letter on file
from the NSA.

On 11/28/2015 06:32 PM, Frank wrote:

[snip]

It is convenient in not having to get up and look at caller id on the
phone.

And annoying when you record the show to watch days later.

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On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 11:58:33 -0600, Mark Lloyd
wrote:

On 11/28/2015 06:32 PM, Frank wrote:

[snip]

It is convenient in not having to get up and look at caller id on the
phone.

And annoying when you record the show to watch days later.

If you are talking about the Dish box, the caller ID is not recorded,
it is in the playback/display stream in real time. I assume the cable,
VOIP and FiOS boxen work the same.