TV: Are they watching you watching them?

Originally posted by Ex_CT2
reply to post by UnlimitedSky

 

Well here's your answer. From your second link:

Comcast Cameras to Start Watching You...

...the cable company is experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who’s in your living room. The idea being that if you turn on your cable box, it recognizes you and pulls up shows already in your profile or makes recommendations. If parents are watching TV with their children, for example, parental controls could appear to block certain content from appearing on the screen. Kunkel also said this type of monitoring is the “holy grail” because it could help serve up specifically tailored ads. Yikes.

As Intrprtr pointed out above, how do you watch everyone? Or, more to the point, who watches everyone? How would you know who to watch, and how would you decide that? Analysts? You'd basically have to hire several hundred million analysts to analyze which of several hundred million people to watch. Too mind-boggling.

No, I'm more inclined to believe Comcast: It's just plain third-rate AI trying to figure out who's in the room so as to make their ads more effective.

Not that I don't sincerely believe in the evil of Big Brother, and the excesses of Big Government. It's just a matter of practicality....

I remember reading about that. If it ever comes to this, I will invalidate their precious and costly technology with a simple and cheap piece of electrical tape conveniently place over the camera aperture.

I never signed a non-disclosure agreement so I have done nothing wrong....besides most of you dont believe it which helps to conceal all the other far out looney land technologies as well

They can build a 3d holographic realtime image of the inside of your house with AC and DC current in your house from a remote location and yes monitor you as well (image). Here is the cool part....they can interact with you as well and take your vitals, manipulate your vitals, etc. Call it a really Bad Ass medical imaging device as well.

I will not disclose the companies because you all could figure that out already on your own...you are pretty smart.

There is so much delusion on this thread it is not true. I know for a fact my TV doesn't have a camera in it. Seriously what sort of ego makes people think the state is so interested in what you do in front of your TV? Get over yourselves - they don't give a f*. Besides, if anyone was remotely interested there are far easier and more sophisticated methods.
I recommend that anyone seriously believing this gets some psych meds.

Originally posted by Nobama
reply to post by UnlimitedSky

 

well doing a lot of self repairs on my gadgets (computers,tv,washing machine, etc)

I've never come across a TV with an hidden camera, and on top of that it wouldn't be possible to send a signal back through the tv after all they aren't full duplex (most anyways)

Its really not as far fetched as you may think, experts say that anything that is built for one particular purpose, can in deed be reconfigured to perform the exact opposite. For instance, a car is built to drive forward but it can also go backwards, a blowing machine used to blow leaves can actually be reconfigure to do a sucking function. I believe we call those “vacuum cleaners”

Again TVs (ones connected to a coaxial cable, or DVR) only receive information, and are not capable of sending information, so this logic is kinda flawed..

Not completely accurate.Look into HDMI-CEC. All modern tv's going back 3 years transmit as well as receive. I've heard theories of the IR sensor being able to double as a generic camera and haven't taken to much stock into it. But I recently put one of samsungs newer LED's (C9000) in a customers house and they complained about the Eco-sensor funtion; it monitors the lighting condition in the house and dims the tv as it gets darker. Samsung has been the flagship tv of my company for a few years and when I talked to the engineers in Korea about this they said that it's not possible to disable this feature in the firmware. When I told them it was unacceptable and I was willing to dismantle and physically disable the sensor they warned me that its tied in with the ir. So if I did I or customer would have to press the power button on the tv every time. I've since started putting in LG and interestingly enough samsung sent me a 63" d8000 for $100 freight to try and bribe me back. I told them thanks, but call me when you'll return control of the tv back to the customers. If I or anyone else wants to watch a bright high contrast picture in the dark, that's our right.

reply to post by Resinveins


No... but every time I go outside, I see them hanging from every street corner in town. Some are like the black bubble kind that you see in Vegas casinos way up on 150 foot poles. Those babys have hella zoom ability and can look with star light, Infra red, thermal, etc.

One nation... under surveillance.

I've heard theories of the IR sensor being able to double as a generic camera and haven't taken to much stock into it.

Hello ludshed,
Having experience with electronics, I can assure you that IR sensors cannot act as a generic camera.

Think of an IR LED like you have in your remote control, the sensor is "like" a LED but working in reverse (ie : you will get a voltage coming from the crystal if you shine IR light on it.). I can see it being used to monitor lighting condition of the room the sensor (or tv) is placed in.
But acting as a "generic" camera ? Pfffttt ! Unless you want a camera with 1 pixel of resolution.

Good thing you are not taking to much stock into it.

reply to post by UnlimitedSky


Wow this thread brought back a flood of memories... when I use to lay in bed waiting for hours to fall asleep(because of insomnia) and contiplate conspiracies (around the time BBS's were big.... right before the internet as we now it came about)

So here's the jist of it.... when I was a kid my mother told me not to sit to close to the TV due to "radiation" being sent out from the screen and would ruin my eyes... in my teen years when I started to learn about frequency waves (sonar, micro, xray, etc.) I though back on her words... "If the TV sends out waves of energy (light & sound) and that same TV also had a receiver (kind of like the one that receives the infered light from the remote control), the waves that bounce back towards the television could then be gathered and "translated" into a picture (kind of like sonar), and I'm sure if it was done fast enough could produce a type of time laps video

So it wouldn't suprise me that if a teenager could connect the dots of some existing technologies... that some genius engineering tech somewhere could develope it...

Thanks for the thread... now I'll make sure to show my "one-eyed werewolf" (my backside bum hole,) to the screen periodically to keep it real....

Too many tech savy people here for this story. It's not true at all.

Also flouride is fine. I grew up in one of the first places to flouridate water and guess what? I'm fine and also I have never had a cavity.

Maybe no kids died from lead paint but how many were severly brain damaged from it?

reply to post by UnlimitedSky

Sounds like this one sci-fi movie.

METROPIA .. you should watch it op.

To throw my 2 cents in, I know a TV antenna transmits quite well if you plug a UHF radio into it.

Don't know how good it is for the radio but...

reply to post by NuclearPaul


What if radio towers are within radiance of the community?