[Eug-lug] Linux TV

[larry price]

On 2/4/07, Bob Miller <kbob at jogger-egg.com> wrote:
> Mr O wrote:
>
> > What features what your TV have that require linux? Image viewer
> > / media playback from Memory Stick? ATSC tuner w/ mpeg decoder
> > using linux?
>
> I would assume they use Linux to listen to the remote, drive the
> on-screen menus, manage the video and audio processing hardware,
> stuff like that.

no usb ports on it? no built in web browser? aww.

> * What happens when Apple runs out of cats?  The only big cats they
>   haven't used yet are Bobcat, Lion, Lynx, and Ocelot.

that gets them to 2010, by which time desktop operating systems will
be either obsolete, or more like all-encompassing worldviews
intantiated in software (some would say they are well on the way
already) and beyond version names.