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Your TV Is Spying On You (www.ludlowinstitute.org)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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You sit down to relax, put on your favorite show, and settle in for a night of binge-watching. But while you’re watching your TV… your TV is watching you.

Smart TVs take constant snapshots of everything you watch. Sometimes hundreds of snapshots a second.

Welcome to the future of "entertainment."

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 40 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I’ve never allowed my TV to have an active route to the internet since I bought it in 2019, it’s exclusively fed over HDMI by gaming consoles and an Apple TV.

The thing is, HDMI 1.4 added HEC, so what’s to prevent media players from serving as an Ethernet switch and providing an internet connection to TVs.

[–] tfowinder@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

HEC feature enables IP-based applications over HDMI and provides a bidirectional Ethernet communication at 100 Mbit/s

I think the bandwidth is too slow for HD/4K Streams.

I am sure the 100 Mbit/s must also be theoretical maximum, i would be impressed if practical cables supports even half the orignal specs

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

for streaming, yeah, for tracking its plenty

[–] cole@lemdro.id 6 points 10 months ago

100Mbit/s is plenty for streaming even 8k

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

for streaming, yeah, for tracking its plenty

[–] 3dcandy@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

Apple TV is watching you 😁