CES: Privacy and smart TVs with Vizio CTO Bill Baxter

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🗓️ 7 January 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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To kick off our coverage of the Consumer Electronics Show, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel sits down with Vizio chief technology officer Bill Baxter to talk about the future of the SmartCast platform, what it’s like to put AirPlay 2 and Apple HomeKit on Vizio TVs, and, most importantly, privacy relating to data tracking on smart TVs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's the knife on the VergeCast where it's CES 2019 this week.
0:03.6	The biggest texture in the world, it's a little bit crazy.
0:06.3	We're gonna have two regular VergeCast this week.
0:08.6	They're gonna be sleep deprived and a little nutty.
0:10.6	They're gonna be really fun.
0:11.9	And I'm trying to get as many interviews with TechExx as I can.
0:14.9	They're all in Vegas this week.
0:16.4	They're all willing to talk.
0:17.4	Our first interview is with Bill Baxter, the CTO of Visio.
0:21.2	You're probably familiar with Visio.
0:22.4	They're one of the most popular TV manufacturers in the United States.
0:25.4	CES is a show about TVs.
0:27.6	This is where all the TV news of the year gets made.
0:30.1	There's big TV news this year.
0:32.3	Apple is integrating with Smart TVs.
0:34.0	They're letting Visio put AirPlay2 and HomeKit on their TVs.
0:37.5	They're letting LG do the same.
0:38.9	They're putting the iTunes app on Samsung TVs, which is crazy.
0:42.6	But I talked to Bill about what it's like to put AirPlay2 and HomeKit on the Visio TVs,
0:46.7	the future of his SmartCast platform, and importantly about privacy.
0:51.2	So you may have seen a tweet I had a couple days ago.
0:53.6	I noticed my parents' new Visio PCers TV is sending data
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