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Ubuntu TV: Coming Soon To a Living Room Near You (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the forget-the-world-we'll-dominate-your-TV-instead dept.

Apple TV is a little device you hook to your television. Ubuntu TV (motto: "TV for human beings") is going to be inside your TV, says Peter Goodall, Canonical's Product Manage for Ubuntu TV. At CES, he described Ubuntu TV to Timothy Lord in detail. Join them via Slashdot Video to see what's up with this Ubuntu venture, which has lots of competition; "Smart TV" was a major CES catchphrase this year.

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  1. Re:Integrated Computers & TV's dont mix by BasilBrush · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The VCR/TV combos that I saw were always portable TVs. I quite often saw them in office environments, where they could be moved to where ever training or a presentation required them. In such a case, a separate TV and VCR wasn't a good option, because of having to carry 2 items, and the hassle of rewiring them together each time they were moved. And they probably had a useful life of, what 10-15 years?

    For large screen TVs, building a VCR in wasn't very common. I imagine there was such a product but I never saw one.

  2. Samsung is working on this by zerofoo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Samsung is working on a "user upgradeable" TV with plug in modules. There was little detail about it at CES this year, but it appeared from the demos that you could plug in modules to upgrade CPU, operating system, and image processing components.

    I don't know exactly how much of the TV is upgradeable, but Samsung suggested that most of the important bits of the TV could be upgraded this way.

    -ted