I had a look at the back of the manual for the Toshiba TV my mum's
just bought and wasn't surprised to see zlib, a GPL mpeg library and
other FOSS software referenced. I'm wondering of course if Toshiba's
using Linux or some other FOSS *nix and is just keeping quiet about
it - it's doing too much to be powered by a low-powered embedded
kernel a la the microwave oven.
Wesley Parish
On 15/04/2012, at 5:57 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
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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