[rurban]

The problem is not the mere boot time of your SmartTV. You are waiting for the SmartTV to send your viewing profile home. That's a lot of data. Before that the UI stays frozen. In earlier SmartTV OS versions it was immediate startup, the delay only started some years ago. Never upgrade your OS.

Maybe they are even sending home recorded audio of what you did in your bedroom, that long it lasts.

[zapdrive]

Citation needed. There's no evidence that any TV sends this data at boot (and frankly there's no need to, it can send this data later on).

[gowld]

It's also not a lot of data, of course. "Viewing data" is under a megabyte.

[rurban]

No citation possible, because the data is encrypted. What is measurable is the delayed startup. Of course they can send the data later, but that's not what is measured.

[zinekeller]

Not saying that they don't send data at startup (but it is more likely that it will be delayed by around a minute or two), but not acknowledging that dumb (OLED/LCD) televisions' faster boot times is simply due to having literally fewer functions is missing the bush. Even well-optimized embedded Linux still takes around 5 seconds to boot to init whereas dumb TVs are already (usually) finished in 3 seconds.

[naikrovek]

> No citation possible

Then why are you saying something as if it is fact? You don't know what is happening there, you've assumed. You're guessing.

[rurban]

Maybe is not fact. Maybe is a guess

[naikrovek]

Then what is the point of mentioning it? Maybe your bones are blue. Maybe not. It's a guess. It could go either way! So why mention it at all?