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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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    True science means that when you re-evaluate the evidence, you re-evaluate your faith.
  2. next step by VanillaCoke420 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next step is to gather a bunch of corporations to form new standards for TV shows, in order to improve the shows too.

  3. Internet TV will be easy for Japanese by Talez · · 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.

    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.

  4. In related news... by ChicagoFan · · Score: 5, Funny

    The United States government has announced in a press conference that this action is considered a terrorist act toward Microsoft. "Our allies would use Microsoft software for this task", said George W. Bush. "They are not with us, so they must be against us." Bombing of Japan begins tomorrow.