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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] • 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