Re: Why do flat-panel sets take so long to come on?

Meat Plow wrote:

On Sun, 31 May 2009 19:00:33 -0500, AZ Nomad
<aznomad.3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:30:20 +1000, Trevor Wilson <trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"William Sommerwerck" <grizzledgeezer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My Vizio seems to take "forever" to display an image. What, exactly, is
the
set "waiting for"? CCFL HV driver stability? Something else?

**Modern digital receivers are not receivers in the traditional sense. They
are fully blown personal computers, which happen to have a TV tuner
attached. They still perform all the usual checks, before booting.

They aren't full bloan personal computers. I can't recall the last TV
set that came with an operating system capable of running the kinds of
applications people typically have on their PC. They might have linux
burried inside, but they're not going to have enough capability to
let you do anything but run the single embedded application.

The similarity is that they have a processor, a program probably in ROM maybe
in flash, RAM, etc.

So did a TV or VCR of 10 years ago. So do most microwave ovens today
and even my toaster. None of them require enough boot time to be noticeable.

I would agree with the minimal boot time but most sets of this genre
run an embedded operating system and go through a self test which
requires some computational agility. So seeing that some hand held
games can actually run lite versions of XP/Linux while other games
like XBOX run embedded operating systems it's not far fetched to
assume a technically advance piece of equipment like a flat panel
tv have enough cpu power under the covers to run an interactive
operating system.

Currently a lot of TV's have USB and LAN connectivity and are able to playback media files
from hard disks or memory cards via those connections.
Moreover, the first TV's wih integrated internet browsers are already available.
Linux may be found as embedded OS in Philips flat TV's.



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