How to Hack Time Square Giant Screens!

A video showing a man using his iPhone to hijack the “JumboTron” video screens in Times Square has gone viral, raking in close to a million views on YouTube since it was posted on Sunday. It has also sparked a raging debate on Twitter and blog comments: Is it real or a hoax?


“The way it works is pretty simple: plug in my transmitter into the iphone 4 and play back any video clip,” explains the text that accompanies the video posted by the mysterious BITcrash44. “The transmitter instantly sends the video signal to the video repeater and the video repeater overrides any video screen that it's being held next to.”



Read more: http://techland.time.com/2011/03/16/can-you-hack-the-times-square-jumbotron-via-iphone%e2%80%8e/#ixzz1GtEA9mS3