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In reply to the discussion: Verizon has filed a patent for a DVR that can watch and listen to the goings-on in your living room. [View all]dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)30. What ya do is put up a closed loop video in front of their spy hole.
Something like a bowl of fish swimming, or even anything gross.
then just let it run over and over and over.
that is, if you are willing to use the damn DVR thing in the first place.
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Verizon has filed a patent for a DVR that can watch and listen to the goings-on in your living room. [View all]
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
OP
Sounds cool to me. Imagine if we could choose whose living room we got to watch.
rhett o rick
Dec 2012
#1
You must not have read the part about how comcast & google already have similar patents.
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#71
I sincerely hope that people will eventually get tired of ads in their face all the time
arcane1
Dec 2012
#4
Orwell = prophet. How did he know? I have no doubt they'll 'sell' these to the population with
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#10
towards the end of his life my dear old uncle al was convinced the tv was watching him
dembotoz
Dec 2012
#9
Cover the camera lens with a tiny piece of paper taped into place except when you WANT to use it.
kestrel91316
Dec 2012
#25
Corporations and the national security state would want it. And who else matters, eh?
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#69
"Comcast patented similar monitoring technology in 2008...Google proposed yet another patent..."
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#70
Not buying one may solve the problem for you, but not for the population as a whole. Is there
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#18
I know we are outnumbered by the "average" person who will indeed dutifully get one of these things.
dixiegrrrrl
Dec 2012
#34
Imagine the public relations shit-storm, possible criminal charges and law suits...
-..__...
Dec 2012
#32
Some people keep the TV and DVR in their bedroom. I don't think they want a DVR
JDPriestly
Dec 2012
#73
If it catches me constantly snoring in front of my TV will I be bombarded with stay-awake remedies?
NBachers
Dec 2012
#81
The joke line was crossed when naturally occurring genomes started getting patented. (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2012
#90