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I had an movie collection stored on a shared windows hard drive.

I recently bought a new LG smart TV and immediately strange things would occur.

Movies that worked once fine now would lack audio on playback. Then finally a film played back with the directors cut dubbed in. There was still only one audio track. Just not the movies original.

Upon inspection I discovered that a bunch of movies all of which now had audio issues, were no longer the sub 2gb size as originally but rather 8 or 10 gig.

I ran all the anti-virus software I could and found nothing.

So I wiped the operating system and rebuilt the pc as a Linux box. Now when I inspected the hard drive I found a hidden file that opened up a folder named LG and within were a bunch of encrypted and unencrypted files and images referring to my movie collection.

The consumer is no longer sacred and respected but sold out at every opportunity.

This is my warning. But I'm not tech savvy enough to offer more specifics.

I had an movie collection stored on a shared windows hard drive. I recently bought a new LG smart TV and immediately strange things would occur. Movies that worked once fine now would lack audio on playback. Then finally a film played back with the directors cut dubbed in. There was still only one audio track. Just not the movies original. Upon inspection I discovered that a bunch of movies all of which now had audio issues, were no longer the sub 2gb size as originally but rather 8 or 10 gig. I ran all the anti-virus software I could and found nothing. So I wiped the operating system and rebuilt the pc as a Linux box. Now when I inspected the hard drive I found a hidden file that opened up a folder named LG and within were a bunch of encrypted and unencrypted files and images referring to my movie collection. The consumer is no longer sacred and respected but sold out at every opportunity. This is my warning. But I'm not tech savvy enough to offer more specifics.

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[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

I own an appliance repair business. Never buy any LG product ever.

[–] • 3 pts

Not sure if good advice or wants more business.... ;)

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

Buy the old fashioned Whirlpool/Amana lines. I don't even work on LG or Samsung products, not for ten years. Junk. All calls are told to call the manufacturer. One of my old videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyQzokSVVrc

[–] • 1 pt

You said old fashioned Whirlpool / Amana lines. What do you mean old fashioned, as inused over x years old?

Or are their latest offerings on the market okay?

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Had an LG refrigerator lasted about 5 years. LG makes decent electronics but I learned the hard way to never buy appliances from a company that manufactures electronics primarily

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

buying a (((smartTV)))

100% your fault.

e;

running (((anti-virus)))

Rofl. You're retarded.

But your warning is correct. NEVER add any (((samrt))) devices to your network. EVER. NEVER EVER EVER. If you want to stream, buy a PS3. I'm dead serious. They're the best streaming devices that exist.

[–] • 1 pt

Heck, a hacked Wii is a good choice, too.

[–] • 2 pts

That sounds DRM-y.

[–] • 2 pts

That's why you have a pihole and use DD-WRT routers to start with. Inspect the communication with Glasswire. Also, you didn't have redundant storage?

[–] • 1 pt

Yep I had redundancies. Thank goodness ide are cheap as chips

[–] • 1 pt

You can find desktop 3.5" SATA drives in discarded cable boxes on trash day.

[–] • 1 pt

Setup a plex server on a comp. Share the files like that. WAYYYY nicer then a shared drive, and plex will make every file work on the TV all the way up to 4k 60FPS HDR. It's free. But worth the money to get a plex pass too.

[–] • 0 pt

Is Plex still so retarded that it doesn't support FLAC/WAV+CUE files?

[–] • 1 pt

Some piece of shit conversion/DRM to make it play at 120 FPS? Even without any malicious intent, tech stuff is stupid these days.

Hope you learned your lesson: make the drive read-only when mounting on a joo-TV.

[–] • 1 pt

I've had essentially the same setup for the last 20 years. PC out to TV/Monitor (not SmartTV). Audio out to Stereo system. Storage on Media PC backed up to other PC.

Every time I upgrade my personal PC the old one becomes the media PC with a fresh install.

Nothing flash but works for me.

[–] • 1 pt

What the fuck

[–] • 0 pt

Came here to say exactly this. You beat me to it. What the FUCK.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

so you gave a "smart" tv access to your computer why?

all you need is a HDMI connection to the TV and use it as a monitor from the computer. play vids with VLC. easy peasy

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Or even better, set up a media server and just use the app on the TV to watch content over the network. A raspberry pi is more than up to the task

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

that's more or less what he did (on a windows share) TVs don't need to be smart to play videos. it's simply not necessary, and a security risk to have a proprietary computer built into a tv. all it has to do is display video.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt (edited )

Your TV is probably can't decode those videos properly. I have no idea why the files would have changed but I highly doubt your TV did that. The mysterious folder is probably an index.

Still, this is absolutely the wrong way to go about this. Expose your files over a DLNA media server (I use mini DLNA on a raspberry pi) and just use the TV to watch content over the network

LG still makes the best damn OLED screens around, and even if you'd be happy with a LCD screen, all the other manufacturers will also try to sell your data.

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I'm using Linux kodi now. Yes via windows it had write access.

Maybe it wasn't the TV but something altered my files and IMHO a hacker / virus would of deleted them or held them ransom.

And given audio tracks playing directors talking about how hard their movie was to make then I'm convinced that holywood studios were behind it and lg helped them do it.

There was a pattern to which movies were touched and which weren't but I'm not confident enough yet to share

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

We have a cheap 'smart tv' in the living room. The prices are so cheap for large flat-panel displays these days and I wonder why. Oh well, I don't use it unless I'm watching an old DVD or tape.

When I walk by it, I say things like nigger, kike, and faggot.

[–] • 1 pt

Because the TV's watch and listen to you and feed back data to the parent company. They're stealing your data and making money off it, so even if they sell it at a loss they're still making money.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Watch? Do you think there is a good chance I will find a camera lens if I closely inspect it?

[–] • 0 pt

Perhaps. You'll definitely find a microphone and if it's on your network it's probably communicating with your phone and going through your phone's data/media.

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