Read it more carefully. They are claiming three things: 1) that the speaker (the electromagnet and cone) is not processing any video data, and that it is not

Read it more carefully. They are claiming three things: 1) that the speaker (the electromagnet and cone) is not processing any video data, and that it is not performing any analysis of the audio data. 2) All the data the speaker gets is processed by an ``ACR'' processor. 3) The ACR's audio fingerprinting algorithm does not use video data. It says nothing about whether the ACR fingerprints or sends other data, or if there is a "VCR" or some other chip that separately processes the video. It definitely doesn't say anything about the processing done on the server side, whether they can sell residential proxy access, etc, etc. At least my TCL TV has a physical switch to disable the microphone (and has never seen the internet, of course). It complains the switch is off at boot every once in a while. There are no complaints about the network unless I accidentally push one of the eight "Google, spy harder!" buttons on the remote.