Television set

And then you can turn off the l- the listening at that s- that step right there.

But there's 216 million TVs globally that they're all listening and they're calling home to LG to say, "Hey, this is what old hag I had to say today.

The- he's interested in this.

Go sell him some ads."

And at first there was kind of a mealy-mouthed defense about, you know, "Oh, well, you know, we're not doing that." But then if you just go back and look at some of their public statements, it's very clear this was intentional.

This was not an accident that they didn't slip and fall and it fell in.

No, this was a plan, and that's it's part of why their TVs have been cheaper, is that they're selling ads.

And that, well, you know, okay, whatever, if the ad is in an expected place, you know, you, you're kind of making that trade-off.

Find out when her husband's going to return my golf clubs.

Televisor.

Would you please connect me with Mrs. Helen Rogerson on channel 7, 2Z, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

What is your channel,

But, um, you know, they...

Somebody said that, had said that the TVs are spying on you, right? And the idea is that, um, they've been dealing of a- allegations of installing adware on, um, you know, on their Windows 11, um- Let me see.

They said some media coverage may have contributed to misconceptions about how LG smart TVs work.

Uh, yes, industry leader, blah, blah, blah.

TVs do not continuously record or transmit user conversations.

Speech-to-text processing begins only if user activates a voice interaction through a supported wake word feature or by pressing the voice button on the remote control, which I can confirm, um, I have accidentally hit that button.

Uh, it does come up on the TV screen.

It-- They also mention, they also bolded this to make sure everybody understands they do not collect or store voice recordings, other audio recordings, screenshots, screen images, or video recordings from the TV.

Much worse.

For, for people not to see it, well, they, they just, you know, I don't know if everybody's drugged up or they watch too much, you know, Boob Tube or what have you.

I'm gonna start a vagrant club.

[laughs]

Gotta put computers.

Sony has stepped back from other consumer tech categories, including TVs, after handing the reins of the Bravia brand over to TCL.

It's still making gaming devices, of course.

The PlayStation division has been expanding into peripherals such as monitors, headphones, and speakers.

I thought people hated TCLs.

No. No. TCLs are-

Good, affordable TVs

... have always been a, like, very good quality, affordable television.

They wanted to end it.

The life of the artist was like, let's go to Runinga.

That time was called Runinga.

You know, prime time.

Mpira and Runinga.

So like...

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And so the company, I think, is in a pretty good position to drive this move to projection.

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