5.9K views · 251 reactions | The term Blipverts and concept were used in the 1985 film Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future and in Blipverts, the first episode of the 1987 science fiction television show Max Headroom. In the film and TV show, "blipverts" were new high-speed, concentrated, high-intensity television commercials lasting about three seconds. Their purpose was to prevent the channel-switching that may occur during standard-length commercials. | InRange TV | Facebook

The Max Headroom Incident: In 1987, two TV broadcasts in Chicago were hijacked by a masked figure no one has ever identified. Viewers watched in confusion as their screens were overtaken by something bizarre, unsettling—and totally unexplained. It only lasted a minute… but decades later, no one knows who did it or how. The Max Headroom Incident remains one of the strangest unsolved hacks in broadcast history. Music: "Send Me An Angel" - Real Life. #unsolvedmystery #UnsolvedMysteries #unsolved #u