anyone do much with satellite television?

basically, with digital satellite services like directv and dish network, the
signal being sent to your house is an mpeg-2 stream. as you might have heard
from the cable companies' propaganda, bad weather (storms and heavy rain) can
interfere with your reception. however, instead of snow or traditional signal
interference, you get digital distortion. of course, if there's too much
interference, the screen goes black and you get the dreaded "searching for
signal" error message. but sometimes you get a corrupted video signal with
some truly bizarre pixellation effects. the effect is surprisingly similar to
bending JPEG files (though maybe this shouldn't be surprising). it's pretty
cool except when you miss an important episode of your favorite show.

using a dvr and capture card, i've been collecting tv footage that's been
corrupted by stormy weather. recently i edited together some of this footage
and set it to "music" (noise music) by my band animals within animals:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl_GOJB3ZAE

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I've never thought of it like that before. But I'm going to go with,
"no, it is not strange to eat your own parasite."
http://www.animalswithinanimals.com
http://badtastesucks.com