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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?

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