Element EQ650AB QLED Roku TV

This model has no built-in far-field microphone — voice control goes through the remote.

What a far-field mic does →

Element's own privacy policy states that voice commands are "only sent when clicking the microphone button on the remote control," and Element's product documentation identifies this model as a Roku TV. Roku's own current TV guide, which Roku directs owners of Roku TV-licensed televisions to, explicitly states the television has no built-in microphone — consistent with Element's own remote-only description.

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Firmware support status hasn't been confirmed for this model from a citable source yet.

What that actually means for your TV →

This model runs Roku TV, whose OS updates are pushed by Roku across Roku TV-licensed hardware generally, but no dated, model-specific commitment or current update record for this exact Element model could be found, unlike Samsung's public seven-year Tizen commitment. Stays unverified rather than assumed either way.

This model has Element's ACR feature, which analyses on-screen content — including over HDMI — to identify what's playing.

What ACR is and how to turn it off →

Element's own privacy policy lists "TV input activity," "HDMI device info," and "tuner activity" among the usage data its Smart TVs collect, alongside app activity and clickstream activity — a first-party description of monitoring what's connected to and playing over the TV's inputs, not just app usage. The policy doesn't name a specific on/off toggle for this; the closest control it describes is resetting the TV's PSID (Personalized Service ID) from the settings menu, which clears the identifier this data has been linked to rather than switching the collection off.

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Whether this model looks for other devices on your home network hasn't been confirmed from a citable source yet.

How to put a TV on its own network →

Element's privacy policy documents device location and network-adjacent data categories but does not describe continuous scanning of other devices on the local network, and no other primary source confirming or ruling this out for this model was found.