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by zapdrive 1942 days ago
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).
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gowld 1942 days ago
It's also not a lot of data, of course. "Viewing data" is under a megabyte.
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rurban 1942 days ago
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.
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zinekeller 1942 days ago
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.
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naikrovek 1941 days ago
> 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.

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rurban 1941 days ago
Maybe is not fact. Maybe is a guess
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naikrovek 1940 days ago
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?
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