Sooooo.......Is Comcast still planning to look in our living rooms?

[woo me with science]

Remember their plan to tailor advertising by body shape recognition technology...i.e., seeing who's in your living room? We heard about it in 2008.

http://newteevee.com/2008/03/18/comcast-cameras-to-start-watching-you/

That was supposed to become more likely with the switch to high definition TV's, wasn't it?

Anyone know what ever happened with that?

O8)

[Duer 157099]

1. Just in case, I regularly flip off my cable box

I don't mean power it down, I mean give it the finger.

Just in case.

[woo me with science]

15. LOL.

I did that to Verizon in a letter. :)

[gristy]

2. Did you check the internets? Searching google or news.google might turn up something

[woo me with science]

6. I see a small flurry of postings from 2009 based on this article with a provocative title:

"Comcast Executive Admits Your TV Can Now Watch You Back."

http://westvirginianews.blogspot.com/2009/05/comcast-executive-admits-your-tv-can.html

However, I don't see anything in the article that says the technology has actually been implemented anywhere. The headline seems to be based on the admission from 2008 that the technological capability has arrived and is being seriously considered for use.

But you never know, do you?...

[PeaceNikki]

11. Because it was a hoax.

[woo me with science]

13. Please see my post below.

It contains a question for you.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7764654&mesg_id=7764826

[Turbineguy]

3. Too late now

but if they had they would have found out why I kept calling about bad reception and returning equipment.

[PeaceNikki]

4. yeah

http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/converter.asp

[Chulanowa]

8. Snopes is part of the machine, man!

You can't trust anything you read unless Alex Jones or David Icke signed off on it!

Want proof? Okay. The GOVERNMENT insists that it never nuked hte moon, that it never intended to nuke the moon. But you know what? I went out today and looked up and the moon was ON FIRE! How the fuck do you explain that? Cover-up! We're being lied to about everything man!

[woo me with science]

9. I knew you were going to type that. :)

Really, I did.

[SDuderstadt]

5. Do yourself and others a favor...

check these things out with Snopes before you post bullshit, even if it's only "asking questions".

http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/converter.asp

[woo me with science]

7. Not the same thing.

Your Snopes refers to an internet video that was making the rounds that claimed to have uncovered a camera and microphone inside a DVR box. The mock-up was so crudely done as to be laughable.

The company has actually done research into body form recognition technology that has nothing to do with that bogus video.

The post was largely tongue-in-cheek, but I wouldn't dismiss Comcast's attraction to the larger concept so blithely...

[PeaceNikki]

10. Read it all.

[woo me with science]

12. I did read it, and it's all about the video.

Are you saying the original linked article was a hoax and Comcast never considered using such technology?

I'm asking seriously, because I'm unaware of that if it's true. I thought they actually interviewed the guy and he admitted they were considering something like this. I figured they probably dropped it because people didn't like what they heard.

What, exactly, is the "hoax" to which you are referring?

[Go2Peace]

14. Some of us "get it". And it *will* eventually happen if we don't have privacy laws in place

[woo me with science]

17. Some "get it."

Some don't. Others apparently just like to argue. :)

Thanks for your input.

[pokerfan]

16. One thing they are doing

depending on your area is monitoring what you watch and how you watch it. Essentially turning everyone into a Nielson family.

http://techliberation.com/2009/01/12/cable-companies-to-log-viewing-habits-is-privacy-at-risk/

It's all about figuring out what they can charge their advertisers.

[woo me with science]

18. They'll do what they can get away with

if it is lucrative.