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it isn’t just connected TVs. it’s those with a camera as well. not all smart TVs have a camera. i have a relatively high-end smart TV that doesn’t have a camera
by nikofeyn 7y ago
it isn’t just connected TVs. it’s those with a camera as well. not all smart TVs have a camera. i have a relatively high-end smart TV that doesn’t have a camera.
- mrec 7y agoSorry, I've been out of the loop here for the best part of 20 years. Why on earth would any TV have a camera? What's it used for?
- detaro 7y agoGesture control video chat (many models had Skype a while back, as far as I remember that was shut down though)
- mrec 7y agoI'm feeling a sudden overpowering urge to throw clogs into things.
- detaro 7y agowhy?
- mrec 7y agoI just find the idea that people would pay money to have an insecure network-attached camera pointed at them at home, because picking up a remote control was just too much like hard work, utterly horrifying. This is not how I envisaged the future panning out.
- magduf 7y agoWell the video chat thing actually makes a lot of sense, and was definitely predicted by a lot of sci-fi many decades ago, even in "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 1967. I'm actually surprised that of all the things sci-fi predicted, that that one didn't pan out much. It turns out that, in the future, people prefer exchanging extremely short text messages with each other than seeing each others' faces, or even spending time in each others' presence. Futurists from a half-century ago would be shocked and disappointed.
- nikofeyn 7y agomostly for video chatting. it felt like a fad a few years ago. with the ubiquity or phones, tablets, and laptops, it seems like a pointless feature anyway.