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Re:My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. W... by blacksmith_tb on Sunday March 30, 2025 @11:54AM (#43525121)
Wouldn't the data be a lot less useful to them? Instead of 'customer watched X show for Y minutes' it'd be 'customer X watched Y minutes of unknown on HDMI1'.
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Re:My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. W... by toast0 on Sunday March 30, 2025 @02:49PM (#43526502)
There's ways to fingerprint the content.

A low res, low quality jpeg once a minute or N seconds into a scene transition is quite small. I think audio fingerprinting can be effective and very low bandwidth as well.

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Re:My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. W... by cma on Sunday March 30, 2025 @04:24PM (#43527316)
As edge AI gets better they will be able to send smaller textual descriptions of the screen content.
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Re:My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. W... by cma on Monday March 31, 2025 @07:07AM (#43533568)
Something like color histogram data is probably enough for fingerprinting known content.
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