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This is probably the strangest iPhone issue I've encountered to date (even more weird than the "stop the image rotation half way" bug).
For those who either don't know or don't care, the Major League Baseball playoffs are going on right now. For the most part, the division series and championship series for both American and National leagues are being broadcast on TBS and TBS HD. When my Westinghouse 32" LCD HDTV is on TBS HD and I get a phone call, the TV begins to freak out and come to a screeching halt. Occasionally when the phone switches from EDGE to Wi-Fi, the same thing occurs. It's the most bizarre thing I've seen in a while. My guess is that the signal is interfering with the HDTV's built-in HD tuner, even though I'm using my cable box to watch TBS HD. However, no other channel does this (including other HD channels that are "over the air" HD); only TBS HD.
I know there isn't much I can do about it (it's kind of like dealing with GSM noise), but I was just wondering if anyone else has encountered this weird issue. It's also probably not iPhone-specific, but alas, I don't have another mobile phone to test this with.
At least I know when someone is calling me before the phone rings :P

I'm guessing its a Westinghouse thing. First off I thought they only made washers and dryers.
Anyway, I've had my phone around numerous manufactures HD TVs and have never seen this happen before. I'm guess that Westinghouse TV has some serious shielding issues that makes it very sensitive to RF.
Thats my guess.

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