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Originally Posted by ernie
It made for a good story. Credit to Sony for jumping on it to their advantage. It is, however, completely disingenuous when their TVs do the same damn thing.
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Sony's TVs don't have to be connected to the internet every 24 hours (and be able to send back data) to work. What's in the TV is a primitive IR light sensor to adjust brightness depending on ambient lighting and to generally sense if the shape of a person is sitting in front of the TV and watching so it doesn't go into power saving.
What's in the Kinect is an advanced 3D/spatial HD camera with IR mapping of the room and user connected to a powerful computer system with large amounts of processing power and storage that will almost always be connected on the network and sending data back and forth. That is easily abused.