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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."

3 of 127 comments (clear)

  1. The war is no good... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yep its a bad one.

  2. Re:TV on ADSL powered by Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In France, we...surrender when the guy on the TV says, "Stick 'em up!". We do it twice as fast when it's auf Deutsch.

  3. gee thanks by DrSkwid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    IBM were prosecuted by their own government for exploiting their own people and helped the Nazis find the Jews

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    There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter