Interesting that these Sony TVs run Linux. The Panasonic Viera line runs a version of FreeBSD.
I wonder if its possible to run programs such as XBMC on these embedded systems and make it output the picture to the TV screen. I mean its one thing to runs some command line binaries, another thing to actually share the screen with the other software on the TV, like its menus.
Maybe connecting a HDMI cable from a port on the TV back to itself, on another port would work?
Probably not, most of these devices are old school embedded systems, doing most of the decoding via HW with slow processors, so, many fancy things like XMBC are very out of the scope.
Probably in the next couple years, doing NNTP, bittorrent, xbmc inside our tv, could be a reality, now, not so much.
I wonder if its possible to run programs such as XBMC on these embedded systems and make it output the picture to the TV screen. I mean its one thing to runs some command line binaries, another thing to actually share the screen with the other software on the TV, like its menus.
Maybe connecting a HDMI cable from a port on the TV back to itself, on another port would work?