A good friend of mine did exactly that for a network some 15 years ago. He called it his "waterwall".
It was for some kind of internet-cafe. But that we seem to need this nowadays for our private homes, troubles me.
What is this with the attitude, that it is ok, to view into the innermost privacy-sphere of your customers? Sorry, but LG is dead and gone for me. A company, that converts its paying customers into a product, ready to be sold to some advertiser just sickens me.
What comes next? Automatically detecting, when people no longer look at the screen, via a camera, to stop the showing of ads and resume, when people return in front of the screen? Or to detect how many people are watching (as Microsoft had patented)?
What happened to good old: We build one thing, sell it and that is fine. Why does everybody have to be an advertising-company, trying to maximize this revenue stream on the back of the live(data) of its paying customers?
I suspect that this is the result of incompetence on their part rather than an actual intent to log private data. Either way though, obviously not good.
I do understand, that most seemingly malicious intend has its roots in incompetence.
In an answer to German press-inquiries, LG states, that the feature will stay. The only thing, they will change is, that disabling the feature really disables it. They stated, that this was a bug. And I actually believe this. I did not allege, it was malicious intend.
My real argument was, that I am more then happy, to pay good money for a good TV. But that I see no reason, why I should have to pay with my data as well (not being informed on that by the way, when buying this TV) and with this feature being enabled by default.
Sidenote:
They told the German press, that the receiving server dropped the information, when the feature was disabled. They never told anyone, how the server should have been able to do that. As far, as I could see, the requests did not change, when deactivating that feature.
Hi! Friendly native English speaker here. Just a tip, your posts read as very disjointed because you are using the comma so often! You can think of the comma as representing a pause in speech. Re-read your post, taking a pause every time you encounter a comma and you'll see how disjointed it feels. You are making good points, but I found your posts difficult to read because of this issue.
It was for some kind of internet-cafe. But that we seem to need this nowadays for our private homes, troubles me.
What is this with the attitude, that it is ok, to view into the innermost privacy-sphere of your customers? Sorry, but LG is dead and gone for me. A company, that converts its paying customers into a product, ready to be sold to some advertiser just sickens me.
What comes next? Automatically detecting, when people no longer look at the screen, via a camera, to stop the showing of ads and resume, when people return in front of the screen? Or to detect how many people are watching (as Microsoft had patented)?
What happened to good old: We build one thing, sell it and that is fine. Why does everybody have to be an advertising-company, trying to maximize this revenue stream on the back of the live(data) of its paying customers?