Vizio makes more money from your data than from selling TVs. Rossman is saying.
To activate all the Vizio smart TV features (aka data collectors) you must log on to your WallyMart account.
Wait until they do this with toasters.
My ‘made in West Germany’ toaster isn’t connected to the internet.
Worked for an insurance company back in the 1990s and we did business with a company called Axciom that did data cleansing, customer value based on salary, demographics etc. and they pulled up one of our executives and they got her salary, her husbands, types of cars etc. and someone asked how they did it. They shared thru census data and asked if you ever wondered why a $30 toaster warranty asked you how much you made? They said you’d be amazed at how many people are honest when filling those out. Imagine what they can do today.
Some dishwashers make you have internet access to work.
They are trying to do this to access OTA signals as well through DRM encryption and datacasting.
IMHO, it should be illegal to encrypt OTA signals and TVs should be able to access them straight out of the box. If they want to encrypt they have many other avenues of providing their content outside of OTA.