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These 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 prec
by specialist 6y ago
These 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 6y 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 6y agoyes of course. Roku tv does content recognition.
- kbelder 6y 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 6y agoThey absolutely do, which is why I always deliberately give mine bad wifi credentials (if I didn't give it SOMETHING, it would nag).