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Is your XBox online? Are you sure the DVD player doesn't report back what you're watching and how you're watching it?
by ectopod 5y ago
Is your XBox online? Are you sure the DVD player doesn't report back what you're watching and how you're watching it?
- lreeves 5y agoOr your smart TV.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 5y agoWhich, for those out of the loop, is likely taking random screenshots of the displayed image and uploading enough data up positively correlate images to known content, or more, I haven't bothered to learn these things. The people who implement them are creepy af though.
- specialist 5y agoThese comments made me wonder if any smart TVs have something like built-in content-id detection, which then somehow gets shared with the mother ship. One precedent is Nielsen Audio's Portable People Meter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_Audio#Portable_People_Meter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_Audio#Portable_People_... I assume that if surveillance can be done, someones are doing it.
- astrange 5y agoThey do. That's literally the reason Vizio TVs are so cheap. Knowing this, I leave it on because I want everyone to be forced to watch what I watch.
- novaleaf 5y agoyes of course. Roku tv does content recognition.
- kbelder 5y agoSo, what's happening when I watch a video on my PC that is feeding into the Roku tv via hdmi? Is Roku actually capturing info about the content of the stream, or just the fact that I'm streaming from the PC? I'm fairly sure they aren't so blatant as to grab screenshots, but are they doing some sort of analysis of the video stream directly? Just stuff I wonder about.
- ergot_vacation 5y agoThey absolutely do, which is why I always deliberately give mine bad wifi credentials (if I didn't give it SOMETHING, it would nag).
- idatum 5y agoFair question. This is exhausting.