On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Chris Hellyar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just a follow up on my media player search...
>
> Our TV took a turn for the rose (15 year old 30" sony trinitron CRT) last
> week and so I killed two birds with one stone..
>
> Got a Sanyo 40" LCD with a media player built in on special at the
> warehouse.  One less remote to worry about and it does everything I need for
> the moment.
>
> Not a very *ix solution but a nice tidy one none the less.

You'd be surprised - the last 30 pages of the manual for my LG Smart
TV are the text of the various licenses used in the software in the
tv, listed as follows:

153 OPEN SOURCE LICENSE
-        GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
-        GNU Lesser General Public License
-        Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL 1.1)
-        Apache License Version 2.0
-        MIT license
-        Expat license
-        The FreeType Project LICENSE
-        JPEG license
-        OpenSSL License
-        zlib/libpng License
-        Portmap license
-        Pixman license
-        X.net license
-        BSD license
-        RSA Data Security license
-        JSON license
-        MS92 license


Also I understand Sony TV's run a linux kernel.

So, you never know what is inside that Sanyo!  But its surely easier
to leverage the open software out there than to write a smart tv
system from scratch!
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