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Hands on with Facebook’s Portal TV

We try out Facebook’s new video chat TV set-top box and smaller smart screens. For more on Facebook’s Portal TV: TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.

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31 Comments

  1. Michael A

    September 19, 2019 at 12:08 am

    I want one. Looking forward to talking to all my siblings on the big screen. We are all scattered all over the USA and don’t get to see each other much. We already use facetime but this sounds a lot better and it’s free. As far as privacy well that’s no more than an illusion. You have no privacy as long as you are plugged in. Phone, Credit card, streaming and so on. You want privacy go live in the jungle completely unplugged or all you have is the illusion of privacy. So stop talking shit and live your life.

  2. GP T

    September 19, 2019 at 5:26 am

    Creepy.

  3. keshaw singh

    September 19, 2019 at 8:24 am

    Looks cooo 😊

  4. Jeffrey Rufino

    September 19, 2019 at 11:25 am

    This is going to fail

  5. 20GRIZZ20

    September 19, 2019 at 11:53 am

    This is number one bullshit.

  6. Bumble B

    September 19, 2019 at 9:04 pm

    When did Mark Zuckerberg get curly hair?

    • jay Leonard

      October 31, 2019 at 9:59 pm

      Haha i was reading comments not watching. Looked up and remembered your comment. LO Fn L. Could be MZ’s brother. Same body language !!!!

  7. Attack Shovel

    September 19, 2019 at 11:36 pm

    communism

  8. James Steele

    September 21, 2019 at 1:05 am

    NOPE!

  9. Colin Yapp

    September 23, 2019 at 1:16 pm

    A big NOPE, my cell phone is enough of a spying gadget, I don’t want anymore mic’s and cameras in my home.

  10. Mark

    September 23, 2019 at 1:17 pm

    I draw the line with Alexa – no cameras watching me thanks

  11. Ryan Chillingworth

    September 25, 2019 at 4:00 am

    Since it’s from Facebook I really don’t trust it

    • AcidRooster

      October 2, 2019 at 12:50 am

      Ryan Chillingworth why, Google reads your emails every single day

  12. Ryan Chillingworth

    September 25, 2019 at 4:02 am

    Honestly if it was google I’d trust it a bit more

    • Numb Vibes

      November 7, 2019 at 3:20 am

      😐

    • George Washington

      November 7, 2019 at 2:27 pm

      Same thing

  13. AcidRooster

    October 2, 2019 at 12:52 am

    I dunno, im game to buy one, my family is scattered all over the country and i saw my friend using hers on her tv it was like having them in the same room

    • S. G.

      October 8, 2019 at 8:16 pm

      Same here.

  14. Rosey Palm Trees

    October 2, 2019 at 1:01 am

    What a fitting name to give a surveillance device that you install in your own home. Hard pass!!!!!

  15. Matt Munro

    October 12, 2019 at 12:45 am

    My huge question is this. Do you have to switch inputs on the TV via the tv remote or the tv itself? If so, that’s gonna drop sales for the older folks that are not that techy. Even if it is just switching an input… Like if you’rewatching a game or something on TV and someone tries to call through on the portal TV, what happens on the receiver’s end to notify them that they are getting a call and how do they easily switch inputs to be on the call and what happens after the call is over?

    • Seb Leaver

      October 31, 2019 at 9:25 am

      I’d also like to know the answer to this. It needs some sort of video pass-through from your set-top box, through Portal, then to the TV. If a call comes through, I don’t want to have to hunt around the room for the TV remote control just to change channel. I could only see one HDMI connector on the unit itself. If anyone who has one can offer any guidance….

  16. Seb brown

    October 17, 2019 at 6:23 pm

    I would much rather go visit my friends and family gives me a reason to travel plus it’s better to feel the lovely vibes from those I love.

  17. Truth Shockwave

    October 18, 2019 at 4:15 am

    Seems like just another useless quick money grab for a giant tech company. Google did the same thing not too long ago. I mean the little ones are glorified tabs that Don’t do as much as a real tablet

  18. Synergy2900

    October 20, 2019 at 5:01 pm

    no thanks

  19. BS1

    November 4, 2019 at 4:44 pm

    You could have had Jesus Mother Teresa and the Pope in his commerical for this product. I not trustimg in Facebook with nothing ….portal
    .. my ass hell no❇❇
    Mark Zuckerberg is a criminal that sold us all out for his own profit we are nothing but bait and pawns to him.
    No Thank You
    Mark.

  20. Peter Moore

    November 5, 2019 at 8:34 pm

    Do not but this shit unless you want Facebook to spy on you

  21. Vikas Shukla

    November 7, 2019 at 7:48 pm

    Anytime your voice and Videos can be made public. So beware of this cheapo thing.

  22. Andrew Ericson

    November 11, 2019 at 11:35 pm

    no thanks

  23. julius jones

    November 12, 2019 at 5:30 pm

    This is for old people just like Facebook is for old people.

  24. Davide ONE

    November 16, 2019 at 8:50 am

    why he is blinkin so often hahahaha very unauthentic

  25. Karmit Frog

    November 23, 2019 at 5:23 pm

    you trust
    nsa
    nord vpn
    android
    apple
    twitter
    snapchat
    microsoft

    but you can’t trust
    facebook
    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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