Further Research On Smart Televisions

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  1. Neville Telen

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    @Neville Telen This has troubled me for some time, not for my own position, but rather that it would be done at all. As for us, we have nothing "smart" in our house. We pick our channel to be watched off a Dish satellite; our TV is very old, certain it cannot tell the satellite what we choose.
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    I got a Vizio "smart" TV, but it isn't very smart. I haven't found any cameras or anything on it, but I wouldn't have purchased it if I had known what it is like. It may "record our viewing choices, but I don't think we are very interested and mostly watch the "Oldies" channels and Amazon Prime. It is supposed to stream directly from Wi-Fi, but it doesn't work, but the Fire stick works fine.
     
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    I'm happy enough with my smart TV. Basically, it just does Roku directly rather than having to use the box.
     
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    When setting up the TV I made sure all "smart" functions never got activated and I deactivated everything I didn't need, respectively. The most important thing seems to be not to use the WiFi functionality at all.
     
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    I'd say the Wi-Fi stuff is bad news all around, beginning to end.
    https://www.wired.com/2016/01/wifi-halow-internet-of-things/
    https://www.computerworld.com/artic...ternet-of-things-gets-a-name-wi-fi-halow.html
    https://internetofthingsagenda.techtarget.com/definition/Internet-of-Things-IoT
    I go out of my way not to have any Wi-Fi/Bluetooth around here. The remotes on my TV, DVD player, DVD recorder, VCR, and light switch is as close as I'll be getting to that junk.
     
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    @Neville Telen

    We have those, as well as "shooters" which turn our ceiling fans on and off. I think the fans are not smart.
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    If anything turns on/off without your intervention, you know its either 'smart'..... or you got a ghostie.
     
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    Then I fail to understand today's loose usage of the term "smart". I extend my traditional understanding of it to include, today, the ability to "spy" on me or others in real time or otherwise. Seems pretty unlikely that my fans would have that degree of technology built in. Perhaps I'm wrong.
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    Yes, we have a much dreaded smart TV and the house is loaded with WiFI and other instrumentation.
    With the IPads going on and the Apple watches constantly monitoring us not to even lightly mention the possibility that the IPhones are recording and sending scenes of me walking nude through my living room to some unknown entity I have only one thing to add to the conversation.

    If someone is watching from the other side, they live a pretty boring life. They would have more fun watching my ceiling fan because it’s a little kinky: It goes both directions.
     
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