I want a digital tv.. Oh wait maybe not

[mrsid2]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=3&cid=581&u=/nm/20020503/tc_nm/tech_sonicblue_dc_1

[Eagler]

the article is about digital recorders not televisions. It's a tivo type appliance. My tivo has to dial into a database to update its tv guide info. It does this every so often, couple of days. As I don't know exactly what is passing back and forth when it is connected, it could easily be sending my viewing habits to whoever. Seems like good marketing to me...

[mrsid2]

Digital recording is a part of the digital tv package offered here..

That aside, the two-way digital nature of the new technology supports monitoring like this. D-tv offers a broadband internet connection etc.

If this is used as a predecision case, I'll keep far away from digital medias. What they plan to do is a huge invasion of privacy.

Although I think this could never happen in my country since we have a law to protect a persons privacy in the electronic media.. Collecting personal information like this would be a direct violation of the law.