Author
|
Topic: Smart TV's getting too smart for they're own good!!!!
|
Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
|
posted February 11, 2015 01:22 PM
I just read elsewhere, that "smart" TV's have software in them records your actions, not a joke. Samsung has honestly come forward, (well how honest is it when they don't tell you ahead of time that they've placed that in your TV?!!) and admitted that they are doing this, but they hold that information in the "strictest confidence" ...
Strictest confidence, yeah ... right!!
I'm sure that Samsung can't be the only one. This really burns me up. Now, I still have the old 35 inch SONY from 2003, (still looks brilliant) ...
... but when I get my first non projection flat screen TV, I'll ask around to find out what brands do not have that software!!!
I really hope that a whole bunch of Samsung owners will bring forth a class-action suite against Samsung for a complete violation of privacy!
Hey, everyone who owns a Samsung smart TV on the forum ... Go moon your TV in protest!!! Lets see how they like that?
If I sound like I'm typing mad, I sure as heck am!!!!
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
|
posted February 12, 2015 01:16 PM
If these TVs have the cams and Samsung monitors them, Senator Franken doesn't seem to care. You would think that's a much bigger deal.
I checked: they are available as an accessory for Skype.
-buyer beware! (-maybe knit it a little blindfold for un-Skype times!)
I'd never have an exposed webcam in a busy area of my house. That's like leaving a living room shade undrawn on a window at street level! It was a creepy world before they invented all this stuff, why give them another way to peep?
(If they want to see the faces I make when I'm reading Osi's abuse of the word "they're" when I'm at my desk I can live with that!)
How did we wind up with "smart TVs" when television in general is kind of stupid?!
I've always had kind of a queasy feeling about voice recognition processes anyway. I talk to people, maybe pets, but machinery I don't talk to. (I do yell at it once in a while...) It's kind of dehumanizing to elevate an object to that kind of relationship.
I got an Iphone last summer. I know many love Siri, but mine died a quick death at my hands and will never be heard again! [ February 12, 2015, 02:28 PM: Message edited by: Steve Klare ]
-------------------- All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Paul Adsett
Film God
Posts: 5003
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
|
posted February 12, 2015 07:39 PM
We had a Kenmore washer and dryer set that lasted 30 years, during which time they were totally submersed in flood water during Hurricane Agnes in Pennsylania in 1972. Our latest washer and dryer was purchased 3 years ago and they both already need repairs, and it will cost 75% of a new item to fix them. All this electronic crap in appliances and cars is knocking the reliability way down. When I bought a new car 6 months ago the salesman tried to sell me the built in navigation system for an extra $1,750.00. I declined, knowing that when it goes wrong, as it surely will, it will cost a small fortune to replace it. So I purchased a dash mounted Garmin GPS for $150.00 which does the same thing. Keep it simple I say.
-------------------- The best of all worlds- 8mm, super 8mm, 9.5mm, and HD Digital Projection, Elmo GS1200 f1.0 2-blade Eumig S938 Stereo f1.0 Ektar Panasonic PT-AE4000U digital pj
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|