What use is WiFi on a Costco Viso TV?
On Thu, 3 Sep 2015, Ewald Böhm wrote:
On Thu, 03 Sep 2015 04:47:02 -0700, taxed and spent wrote:
so you can connect to the internet and watch Youtube, netflix, etc.
Maybe I don't understand. Actually, I don't understand.
To watch youtube, you need a browser, which is usually a program compiled
for a certain computer, which runs a certain operating system, and which
has a certain byte order and memory structure and a whole bunch of other
things associated with a "computer".
Is the TV acting as a "computer"?
If so, what operating system is the TV?
What browser does it use?
What architecture is that TV browser compiled for?
And a tv set has become a computer. They needed a CPU to handle the data
conversion, so they might as well allow it to be used as a more general
purpose computer.
Both my DTV sets run Linux. A subset, but it's there.
My blu-ray player runs Linux too, as does my TomTom One GPS. It's free,
and yet provides a full OS for building on top of.
Michael
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