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I’m Terrified of My New TV

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Post by philwelch »

TerraHertz wrote: post #242
yincrash wrote: post #222

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There is a button on the remote to activate voice.

"There is a button on the remote to activate voice." More likely: There is a button on the remote to make users believe they have the ability to disable voice data relay to someone's remote servers. What are the chances such TVs will have network controlled power-up capability? You only think you turned it off. It's funny that people seem to be accepting always-on GSM network connectivity of the electronics in contro…

> It's funny that people seem to be accepting always-on GSM network connectivity of the electronics in control of their cars

Shit, I'm not. OnStar freaks me the fuck out; one of many reasons I'll never buy a GM car.

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Post by johnny22 »

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #256
tmuir wrote: post #103

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I can't believe that people buy integrated media players with their TVs. They are usually multiple hundreds of dollars on top of the base TV model price, have terrible interfaces, and are crippleware, using apps with very few services. I suppose the economics aren't as straightforward, but I'm of the opinion that Chromecast, Roku, AppleTV, etc are the next layer of crippleware. A small form factor Windows box or a Ma…

you don't need the manufacturer to strike deals with Netflix/HBO/Hulu, you just need a web browser I wish that were true, but silverlight does not work so well outside of windows and mac.

silverlight isn't required for netflix if you use a recent chrome browser on linux.

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Post by SixSigma »

loup-vaillant wrote: post #178
authatheist wrote: post #173

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Rulers monitor us to cement their power over us, but in a free society without political power, with free-flowing information available to all, companies would have to be careful about what they do, lest they lose their customers, ie. their income.

And, how would we make that happen? How, once you remove the rulers, do you prevent new ones from rising up? How do you prevent companies from flooding customer under a wealth of irrelevant information? How do you prevent things like cartels, now that there is no regulator? It's all well and good to postulate a free society, but do you have any idea what a free society actually looks like? (Neither do I, by the way.)

A govt. is a cartel with a history book.

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Post by [deleted] »

marcosdumay wrote: post #319
res0nat0r wrote: post #284

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Even your iPhone when you ask Siri questions sends your data to be processed in the cloud. People are buying a TV because they want a TV, not a mini computer. Why would TV manufacturers want to jack up the price of their product with non-essential TV components to have onboard voice recognition?

They are already jacking of the price with nonessential components by creating a smart TV. Why shouldn't they jack it a couple more dollars (because that's really the difference) to have on that responds quickly?

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Post by S4M »

lbotos wrote: post #293
TeMPOraL wrote: post #271

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> Your phone doesn't have the processing power to do speech-to-text on the fly, so it sends it to a server to do it. This is what I don't get. I used to play with Microsoft's SpeechAPI back in 2007 and it was pretty decent at real-time speech recognition - almost perfect, if you limited your program to a pre-defined command grammar. It was all done completely off-line, real-time on a machine that had much less proces…

While I agree that a component is revenue, I also think the "big data" factor of it is important. All of those usage stats (Where/when/what was said/) would definitely help to shape future products and integrations. (50% of people want to order pizza, maybe we should integrate some pizza thing vs. the 5% that want to do advanced math, etc) EDIT: I'm also one of those guys who's like "no I'm not signing up to X servic…

I couldn't agree more with your comment. Maybe there is a way to collect data about user only after they have been anonymized, so the data would contain only what user_xxx does, with no way to map user_xxx to his real identity.

I don't think it's trivial, but I hope to see some regulations coming in the way the data are collected and stored.

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