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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*.