LG’s TV OS and Open Source ... good news for B&O ?

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elephant
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Posted March 20, 2018 at 20:05 GMT
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https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/03/20/1437240/lg-releases-open-sourced-version-of-webos-in-hopes-to-push-it-beyond-tvs-and-smart-refrigerators

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Beoet
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Posted March 20, 2018 at 22:07 GMT
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At least good news for us as Eclipse owners!

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Millemis
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Posted March 20, 2018 at 22:16 GMT
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BeoET wrote:

At least good news for us as Eclipse owners!

Why?

MM

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BEOVOX141 (archived2)
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Posted March 20, 2018 at 22:26 GMT
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You guys should start getting into the LG service menu on the Eclipse before even considering hacking the OS....

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tigerisak (archived2)
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Posted March 21, 2018 at 12:42 GMT
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Is there a way to access the service menu on the Eclipse?

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Fidse (archived2)
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Posted March 22, 2018 at 11:36 GMT
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I haven’t found it. And I’m pretty sure you’ll “break” warranty if you do...
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Posted April 6, 2018 at 08:01 GMT
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Millemissen wrote:

BeoET wrote:

At least good news for us as Eclipse owners!

Why?

MM

My thinking here was: The LG panel with WebOs has sold a lot world wide, and most likely there are a lot of sw developers out there that could want to enhance/improve the WebOs platform, which would also benefit us as Eclipse owners. The LG panel has performance issues, most likely parts of these issues could be improved with a better WebOS kernel. And possibly some Eclipse owners that can do coding could improve features in the LG/B&O integration as well?

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moxxey (archived2)
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Posted April 6, 2018 at 08:50 GMT
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BeoET wrote:

My thinking here was: The LG panel with WebOs has sold a lot world wide, and most likely there are a lot of sw developers out there that could want to enhance/improve the WebOs platform, which would also benefit us as Eclipse owners. The LG panel has performance issues, most likely parts of these issues could be improved with a better WebOS kernel. And possibly some Eclipse owners that can do coding could improve features in the LG/B&O integration as well?

A lot of assumptions! I really doubt B&O in particular likes the thought of third party freelance developers editing the code behind their £10K TV, so the likelihood of these ‘improvements’ filtering down to your Eclipse are small.

i thought the point of making it open source is to adapt it for *other* devices?

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Millemis
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Posted April 6, 2018 at 09:51 GMT
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moxxey wrote:

i thought the point of making it open source is to adapt it for *other* devices?

That is exactly how I also understood it!

MM

Location: Flensborg————Danmark

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