the panasonic tvs and blue rays are using opensource and gpl base software. Also i had sent an email to panasonic.co.nz asking them if it were possible to multizone my blue ray player and they sent me pro video who did it free of charge. beat buying a universal remote to crack it.
Regards Bevan In a world without fences and walls, who needs Gates and Windows? On 15 April 2012 20:24, Wesley Parish <[email protected]> wrote: > 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! >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Linux-users mailing list >> [email protected].**ac.nz <[email protected]> >> http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/**mailman/listinfo/linux-users<http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected].**ac.nz <[email protected]> > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/**mailman/listinfo/linux-users<http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users> >
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