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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. Could be a good thing... by Jasin+Natael · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Finally, you'd have an OS/interface that would be the same for most TV's worldwide, and wouldn't need loads of effort and reprogramming to localize for different markets. And that's not mentioning the possiblity of a widely available set-top that could conceivably run a very decent browser (mozilla/phoenix). Maybe it's not what we geeky Americans drool over, but the business/marketing sense in it is obvious.

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  2. Internet TV streams, eh? by Chromal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is a pretty cool idea, especially if it means I can set up real time television streaming a la shoutcast. We've got a ways to go on bandwidth is most places to make this ubiquitous, though. It'd suck if it just turned into an alternate closed delivery scheme for digital cable.

    $ cat Farscape_4x22.mpg | vidcast -v -dtv dig_tv &

    Woo.

  3. FIVE DIFFERENT COMPANIES. (yay) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This could never have happened in Capitalist America (troll, yeah, I know), where companies are too retarded to realize that you need to cooperate with others if you want to make *standards*.

  4. Re:GPL procedure? by Pharmboy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's a great use of GPL.

    Yes it is. The GPL can only succeed where there is the opportunity for companies to make profits. This is how they pay those "programmers" who develop the code, that "only" works on their hardware, even tho it is now GPL now, and anyone can use it.

    I understand that lots of people have a knee jerk reaction to a company making money using GPL to make money, but uh, that is the idea: make money selling the hardware and servicing the software. If you can't use GPL to make money, no one will want to use it. Really.

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