Sony’s picture processing remains the reference in the industry, and its Google TV sets at least expose honest toggles for viewing-data collection and personalized advertising in the settings menu. It is still an ad-funded smart TV platform underneath, and privacy researchers have documented what Automatic Content Recognition collects on sets like these. Turn the toggles […]
Samsung’s Tizen panels are excellent hardware with a decade of panel innovation behind them, and the company publishes privacy settings for its viewing-data features. The same sets have been widely documented by researchers and press running Automatic Content Recognition and showing advertisements in the interface, with lawsuits and regulatory attention following in several markets. Gorgeous […]
Sceptre sells televisions without a smart operating system: plug in a streaming box you control and there is no ACR, no ad banner on the home screen and no microphone listening for a wake word, because none of that exists in the set. Picture quality is budget-class and the design is plain. For buyers who […]
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