...unless they&#x27;re starting to design TV&#x27;s exactly for these &quot;enhanced viewing experiences&quot; and opening up a side-channel of profits to marketers and folks like Nielson.<p>Wasn&#x27;t there one of the asian manufacturers the other month (I wanna say... Samsung maybe? please correct me if I&#x27;m wrong) that got caught building a SmartTV that recorded audio and sent those packets up through the network to who-knows-where?  They eventually rolled that feature back, but not before they got enough press that they had to make a statement saying it was only for diagnostics or testing or something like that.<p>If you&#x27;re, say, a multinational with a large mobile device division and a strong corporate mandate to make sure the mobile device ecosystem stays strong so profits keep flowing, is it too far fetched to think you would start looking for cross-division synergies that, lets say, grease the flow in this ecosystem? Perhaps you could introduce an extra component (or optimize an existing one for different parameters) that if, say, it saw a signal of a certain form, it might reproduce it in an invisible and obtrusive way.  And if it helps major players in the device ecosystem, well, great, the ecosystem stays strong and mobile devices continue to roll off the shelf.<p>Complete speculation, but not an unreasonable line of thinking?