LG Shows How To Play Pirated Movies On TV

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LG Shows How To Play Pirated Movies On TV
February 05, 2010

" Some of the newer LG TVs have USB support, allowing consumers to hook up an external drive to their screen in order to view photos, listen to music, or enjoy a movie. In the manual that comes with these devices, LG doesn’t try to hide the most popular use for this feature as they show customers how to play a pirated movie.

Using pirated films as promotional material to sell consumer electronics is nothing new. The John Lewis store has used aXXo rips to sell iMacs in the past and Saturn, Europe’s largest retailer of consumer electronics, showed pirated films to sell Macbooks.

In these previous cases the pirated films were only on display in the stores, but the multinational electronics company LG takes it a step further. The company is selling TVs that have the functionality to accept a connection from an external USB device. This allows customers to enjoy pictures, music and videos directly on their TVs, all with a piracy endorsement from the manufacturer.

In the packaged English language manual, LG does not try to obfuscate the true purpose of this nifty USB feature – playing pirated movies. In the picture below, LG included pirated versions of The Incredibles and The Aviator, while explaining how easy it is to play the films directly on a TV.

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LG seems to understand perfectly what customers want, but we doubt that the movie studios will be very excited about this piracy endorsement from the Koreans. Whether the pirated films were included intentionally is unknown, we expect that a company employee simply downloaded the movies off a file-sharing service out of habit or convenience.

Life’s Good isn’t it? "

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lol, while i have zero need for this i still find this article enjoyable and anticipate what's to cum of it.

what? consumers cant rip and label and repack their own rips? i'm confused. Are those definatly torrents or made up tags similar to rls names?

Found this really useful, much appreciated - I hope other companies follow the lead, definitely a dearth of Xvid supported kit out there

What's the point of watching Xvid that is usually a lower quality version on an HD TV? When the USB connection supports AVCHD or mkv then it will be worth having.

"Pirated Movies Pirated Movies Pirated Movies.........."

wow they got nuthin' else to say smh...

I wonder if it's a FoV member ripping those movies? Here's their latest pre: Wallander.2x02.The_Man_Who_Smiled.HDTV_XviD-FoV

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It must be quite an honor for aXXo that they use his name by such large multinationals

lol. useless feature, but we can see what they had in mind.

reminds me of broadband isps advertising downloading movies and music back in the napster days.

i don't do that but i will try

lol DVDrip

it's hard to stop piracy theese days. they only want to sell their product;)

too funny

Samsung has built in media streaming in the 8000 Series LCD/LED TV's.

lol, lg show us this things! :)

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Originally Posted by unclemilty74

What's the point of watching Xvid that is usually a lower quality version on an HD TV? When the USB connection supports AVCHD or mkv then it will be worth having.

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It look's like they are heading that way. I've got an LG blueray player, and that plays *.mkv files through usb.