Have you noticed an electronic beeping sound on TV lately?

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I heard it for the first time about a month ago while my husband was watching a live sporting event. It sounds like the old handheld football video game from the 80's. It's only a 4-digit tone but it repeats every 2 to 3 seconds. It DRIVES me crazy!! ! It was very distracting! I have been noticing it more and more and I cannot tolerate it. I have to use headphones and put on music from my computer while my husband is watching the show or event. Neither him nor our son can hear it. If this beeping becomes the norm, I will never be able to watch TV again. Anyone else notice this? I heard it again this afternoon when my husband was watching football.

That seems very strange!

I haven't had TV for over 10 years, but I'll venture a guess that they're signaling tones (possibly DTMF) that the network introduces into the audio feed to cue their local affiliates to cut over to a local ad spot or station identification announcement. This way, everything is automated and the on-air control room operator can just go to sleep if the game gets too boring to bear any longer.

I hear sounds coming out of electronic devices all the time that nobody around me can ever hear. My family probably thinks I'm joking when I say that I can hear a high-pitched squeal coming out of electrical sockets.

I can also, hear them, during the night is worst.

Never heard that exact thing. Mine frequently makes a loud cracking sound. That freaks the crap out of me. It's almost like it overheats, but its a new tv so I don't get it.

I can with the bathroom outlet and it drove me nuts. The landlord just put it in recently and installed it through the light fixture so maybe that is why. I recently discovered that shutting the light switch off cuts off power to the outlet so now I basically don't have a light in my bathroom because I'll never turn the light on again so I don't have to hear that noise. I can't wait to move.

I've had plugs for my Nintendo DS that made a noise when plugged in. That bugged me too, even more so when I found out that not all of the plugs make that noise.

If I put my ear by some turned off tvs I hear a high pitched noise or static.

One thing that 100% of people I've told this too likely think I'm crazy for is that I hate the sound of spiderwebs ripping. I have a spiderweb phobia and when I tear them down with something sometimes I hear them tear.

There is only one TV in the house and I don't watch it anymore. I don't have the attention span to watch things that aren't about my obsessions. I often listen to university lecturers and music on You Tube while I'm drawing pictures or playing a game but the only thing I actually watch is Sonic X in Japanese. I haven't watched an actual TV in years.

nobody here remembers the old analog tv sets which had that horizontal scan whistle at 15,575 hertz, which when i still had my youthfully acute hearing, seemed to drill right into my skull. it was even worse when i was watching tv in a room full of cigarette smoke hanging in the air, something about the nicotine made my aural treble acuity even more sharp.

I remember the high pitch sound from the TVs if that is what you're talking about.

have you noticed that if you're at somebody's place and they have a functioning old analog tv set [with a converter box], if you can still hear that whistle? if so, your hearing is way better than mine.

Anyone ever noticed that there is a buzz when a certain color comes up onto the screen, but when it changes colors it changes to a buzz that sounds different? (sorry for that silly question, but I wanted to be sure I'm not hallucinating)

I've never seen one so I wouldn't know.

i remember that on the old analog tv sets [picture tubes].

I did a little research online and found this:

Beeping noise

So I am not the only one!

That's probably real. With a lot of TV equipment, there's some "crosstalk" from the video line to the audio line. The result is that you hear a buzzing that changes tone when the picture changes. If you have any device with a video output phono socket, try plugging it into the audio input of an amplifier (with the volume turned low) and you'll hear the same noise.

A few years ago I heard bleeps coming from a Sky box that was receiving UK Gold. They were very inobtrusive beeps, about 4 or 5 of them in succession, about 200ms apart, with a gap of maybe a couple of seconds in between bursts. That was happening all the time, not just near advert breaks or anything. I can't remember if they were present during the ads (we normally used to pause the recording till the ads were over anyway, so mostly they didn't get recvorded). I was surprised to find that even after noticing them, they didn't spoil my enjoyment of the programmes, because usually the slightest noise throws my concentration. I was recording the programmes at the time and I still have the tapes. The bleeps are present on the tapes as well.

I don't know what those beeps are. Possibly the result of using cheap equipment. I'm often quite surprised that not all digital sound is hi-fi, and although it didn't bother me much when I heard it, I object to it as a furtive downgrading of TV sound, which in this day and age has no excuse to be anything less than CD quality. If a manufacturer or service provider downgrades anything, the consumers have a right to be told in advance of buying anything from them.