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Japanese Makers To Forge An Internet TV Standard

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday March 30, 2003 @10:18AM 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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Internet TV will be easy for Japanese by Talez · 2003-03-30 10:55 · Score: 5, Interesting

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

Hell, you can get free 64K ISDN through one of the many ISDN ISPs over there.

They have the infrastructure to support it. If you were using multicast or something like that, Internet TV could be very usable even at high bitrates.