handshake issues with arc ultra

Used to work for Sony for a while…a bit sanguine about them, mostly because of their history of pushing formats that are developed by them, and sometimes licensed. The challenge is, there is no company that meets my approval unconditionally. But I kinda wanted to support both brands as needed here on the boards, and honestly, both of the were ‘open boxes’ from Best Buy. Yea, I’m a cheap bastard. But having lost my job, and moving from SoCal to Washington, my options were also circumspect, for obvious reasons. 

My several Sony sets don't seem nosey, they aren't triggering my network monitoring tools. The newest one has Android / Google TV as an option but not necessary to use the inputs.

I don't track that sort of thing as a rule but do recall a Visio, couple years back, that went back to the store due to the network activity it was up to. 

Yea, Vizio was trying to sell themselves, I think they thought customer data was the way to go. If I recall correctly, they weren’t able to sell to the Chinese, but I think they sold to Walmart. Not sure if they kept up the collection of customer data, but I certainly stopped buying them. 

Vizio...the name says it all. They’re watching 😂

Its the modern business model, we want ‘cheap’ tech, they give us ‘cheap’ tech to make profit on our data.

This explains it well, its not just LG:

Hi All

As interesting as this discussion might be, it’s getting a little bit away from the question posted by the author, which was a recommendation for a TV that will not have any issues communicating with a Sonos soundbar.