Do digitalcable boxes have microphones in them so they can remotely listen to room info??

Answer 1

No, but big brother is watching you from your TV set. You better not say anything incriminating.....

Answer 2

of course not.
if every digital cable box had a microphone in it, that would be hundreds of millions of inputs. who would listen to them all?

cable from the headend to the tap is all one cable.
cable from the tap to the individual cable box is split multiple ways, degrading signal quality.
the cable from the tap to your box is filtered for your specific purchased package (standard, expanded, premium services.)
if "they" were listening to you, think of the fact that there would be 3, 7, 15, maybe 31 more sources all being monitored from the same originating headend cable- even as few as 4 straight audio streams, from a digibox, through a d>a converter, through countless linefilters, muxed with other audio streams from a cable splitter which loses signal quality by design, sent back over a single cable which is ALSO carrying standard, local, expanded, premium channels AND most likely the internet, will be unlistenable.
play 2 different songs at once and you'll understand. play 34 songs at once and single out each individual element, and you have acheived a level of auditory holiness none can hope to achieve.


now take off the tinfoil hat already.

Answer 3

Not unless the cable company installed one before they gave it to you!

Answer 4

No. That would be extremely illegal.