Japan: Common Web TV Standard

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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 @ 15:13 UTC

by Chris Salzberg

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Japan
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Serkan at Tokyotronic reports on news that a common Web TV standard will be rolled out in Japan as early as next year. Companies involved in the move, such as Sony and Matsushita on the hardware side and acTVila on the Internet service provider side, are attempting to come to an agreement by next month.

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“Japan: Common Web TV Standard”

  1. May 14th, 2008 at 17:44 pm
    Tokyo Guy Jean:
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    Hmmmmm, I wonder what they will produce? Maybe they are going to develop an “Online Betamax” this time? :O)

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