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New Samsung TV Watches You Watching It
CanHasDIY writes "Straight out of 1984, Samsung has unveiled a new series of televisions with integrated cameras and microphones, complete with facial and voice recognition software. Best of all, there appears to be no physical indication of the mic and camera's status, so consumers have no way of knowing when they're being monitored, or by whom... and if you don't find the idea of a TV that watches you creepy enough, apparently Samsung's Terms of Service include a clause allowing third-party apps to make use of the monitoring system, and use the data gathered for their own purposes. Nothing Orwellian about that..."
No, not the people making these things, the retarded privacy nuts crying over these things.
THIS. IS. USEFUL.
Why? Because it means content producers ACTUALLY know what you want, not basing their viewing figures on some crap-tier, highly broken viewership figures that come from absolutely piss-poor methods of recording it surprises me that they are still even used!
You privacy nuts are holding back EVERYTHING. Get the hell out of society already, we don't want you here!
And this, for once, ISN'T A TROLL!
You people are the reason so many good shows get cancelled despite large numbers of viewers.
It is the reverse-vocal scenario.
People who watch shows are split up in to various groups, specifically vocal and non-vocal.
Non-vocal groups typically don't talk about a show much after the episode aired for around a couple days after showing.
Vocal ones typically speak about the thing constantly.
And it essentially comes down to that the vocal ones are pulled towards certain types of shows as opposed to others. (reality TV, soaps, comedy are big pullers)
Sadly, THIS IS ACTUALLY USED as part of gauging how popular things is.
Nielson Rating, sure everyone has heard of that, such a horribly broken system.
All of these horrible rating systems are no better than viewing diaries.
A TV that can give absolute figures on viewership? WHY THE HELL WOULDN'T YOU WANT THIS?
Would you be happy if there was a big red button that TURNED IT OFF so "all the lemmings" will be "spied on"?
Hell, even if it was just a simple pingback saying "ID#12127872348 is watching The Simpsons", that would be significantly more helpful than the hell of a mess that is current ratings systems.
Go ahead, cry foul at BIG BAD BROTHER WAN' SPY ON YOUR TV, enjoy seeing all your shows cancelled. (like has been done various times on here, actually, most likely by these paranoid fruitloops as well)
Look through this crap and tell me we wouldn't be better off with absolute viewership figures. I dare you to. (hint: you are already wrong before you posted)
Audience Measurement Systems