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Japanese Makers To Forge An Internet TV Standard

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the or-will-they-end-up-bickering dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Five Japanese TV manufacturers will form a working group to hammer out technical specifications by October for digital TVs with Internet access. They will develop a consumer electronics version of Linux to provide functions and performance required for digital products. The resulting source code will be made available through the General Public License procedure."

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  1. Re:Internet TV will be easy for Japanese by raian · · Score: 5, Informative

    8mbps ADSL connections over in Japan are extremely common with 12mbps starting to be introduced.

    Actually, most ADSL customers here have already gotten their free upgrade to 12mbps. And now a lot of people are moving to fiber: 100mbps for about US$30 a month. Note that fiber to the home is available even in rural areas like Fukui prefecture, so claims that this is due solely to higher population density are simply false--the incredible disparity is mostly the result of poor US legislation.

  2. Re:Could be a good thing... by malarkey · · Score: 3, Informative
    Opera already has a linux-based ITV setup. You can even download an evaluation kit.

    To build Opera 6 for iTV you need a development platform with the following characteristics:
    One of the CPUs: x86, PPC 405, StrongArm or MIPS
    Linux kernel version 2.4.x
    Tool chain: gcc 3.2 and glibc 2.2.5
    QT 2.3.2 (Trolltech's QT embedded or QT on X11) dynamically linked and multithreaded
    On the target hardware at least 4 MB of Flash and 8 MB RAM available to Opera