LG Smart TVs logging USB filenames and viewing info to LG servers - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Mattz333;42917776]How can it even send the data back to LG unless you have it connected to the internet?[/QUOTE] Whenever you see the word "smart" before any technology, it means you connect it to the internet.

[QUOTE=Mattk50;42914142]how long have smart TVs been around?[/QUOTE] That's the joke, hahahaha

[QUOTE=pentium;42916376]I always wondered WHY TV's were starting to get networking.[/QUOTE] It's kind of neat to be able to access NAS drives without needing to run an actual media server I guess. I'd generally prefer a media server though because you can do a lot more, and you aren't locked into some weird ass interface.

[QUOTE=benbb;42917475]Like your Chromecast doesn't send anything to Google, the one of if not the biggest advertising corporations out there. If you want a 'smart tv' get a Raspberry PI or one of those Android Mini HDMI stick things from China (With custom ROM of course) and install XBMC or something similar.[/QUOTE] The Pi is useless if you want Netflix though, which is why many people have internet enabled TV devices at all. Those Android sticks should work though, provided they support DRM. Chromecast doesn't really bother me since Google's getting my info anyway. If you get a Chromecast, you probably have an Android device that runs Google services. And you probably use those Google services a lot.

This seems more like a (software) bug than a bug in the other sense to be honest.

[QUOTE=Reshy;42914278]Isn't it illegal to transmit that kind of data after permission has been rejected? I know it is for those bloatware programs a lot of the freeware programs have in their "express" installation.[/QUOTE] Gmod does/did it, so probably not.

...aaaaand even more of a reason for me not to buy a 'smart' TV. I honestly don't get what's wrong with a simple 1080P LCD panel with a few HDMI/DVI ports, two speakers, a power supply and the logic boards necessary to convert an HDMI signal into images.

[QUOTE=TestECull;42927767]...aaaaand even more of a reason for me not to buy a 'smart' TV. I honestly don't get what's wrong with a simple 1080P LCD panel with a few HDMI/DVI ports, two speakers, a power supply and the logic boards necessary to convert an HDMI signal into images.[/QUOTE] I like having Netflix and similar things built in. Using it for web searches would be a pain in the ass though.

[QUOTE=Robber;42915833][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia[/url] Watermark in the audio of movies.[/QUOTE] It goes way beyond just audio. They also put metadata in random frames and on different batches of movie prints they reorder sequences specific to the batch so they know what batch something was taken from.

[QUOTE=Mattk50;42914142]how long have smart TVs been around?[/QUOTE] You know those magic crystal balls you sometimes sea in fairy tales? Yup. LG at work.

[QUOTE=TestECull;42927767]...aaaaand even more of a reason for me not to buy a 'smart' TV. I honestly don't get what's wrong with a simple 1080P LCD panel with a few HDMI/DVI ports, two speakers, a power supply and the logic boards necessary to convert an HDMI signal into images.[/QUOTE] I guess so you remove clutter since some people really like having a All-in-one device.

[QUOTE=Jsm;42926932]This seems more like a (software) bug than a bug in the other sense to be honest.[/QUOTE] Given this in the OP [t]http://imgur.com/g6WzfIFh.jpg[/t] I'm guessing not a bug

[QUOTE=BreenIsALie;42929666]Given this in the OP [t]http://imgur.com/g6WzfIFh.jpg[/t] I'm guessing not a bug[/QUOTE] The bug could be that the menu selection does nothing. The system may think its still enabled though the menu says off. Very easy to accidentally do.