My parents recently purchased a new house in the exurbs. So far out that
Google maps doesn’t have any photos for the four highest settings. It’s
44 miles one-way to the nearest mall. Yup, that’s the middle of nowhere.
My Dad built a nice set of cabinets for their living room. Including a
a mantle over the natural gas fireplace. When they moved in, unfortunately,
their old TV didn’t fit. It hung over the front edge about half an inch.
Clearly this was not acceptable. The only rememdy, go out and buy a big
badass flat panel TV. And they got a nice good one, I believe its the
Panasonic TH-37PX50U; a 37 inch widescreen plasma screen. I’m jealous.
Unfortunately, it’s stuck in the stretch aspect ratio, which means that all
4:3 content gets stretch to its 16:9 dimensions, kinda strange. Anyway, I
was trying to fix this by playing around in the menus when I found that there
was option for “license”. Naturally I clicked on it.
Here’s the full text of the license, transcribed by me:
This product utilizes the following so called "open source" software: (1)the software which is licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, (2)the software which is licensed under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, and (3)software developed by the third parties and available under certain terms and conditions. For the software categorized as (1) and (2), please refer to the terms and conditions of GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE and GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE in the following screen. If you wish to get further information as to the software, please contact the web site below. http://ww.am-linux.jp/dl/DTV05U
The problem is, I could not figure out how to get the screen to pull up
the GPL or LGPL, which would have been kinda cool. But alas, no dice.
Furthermore, when visiting http://www.am-linux.jp/dl/DTV05U one is greeted with a nice 404 error. That’s
just not cool. I even tried switching the model from DTV05U to DTVO5U, but
it still didn’t work. Crapola. So then I visited http://www.am-linux.jp/ which makes me wonder again, WTF is wrong with
Japaneese people. Really, why do those bunnies need to be there?! I even
followed the click stream looking for the USA software and couldn’t find
anything. Sigh. The Japaneese stuff is there at least.
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I had the same problem, I then typed DTV05U into google and it gave me the link.
http://www.am-linux.jp/dl/DTV05U/
I think there must be something funny in the syntax. Copy and paste the above into the address bar and it should work.
Same here in Europe:
The GPL license of my TH-42PZ80E refers to:
http://www.am-linux.jp/dl/EUIDTV6
which of course is non-existent.
Panasonic is aware of it’s breach of the GPL license. They ignored my request for giving me access to the source code. Well, that’s all I can do since I’m not involved in developing of any of the software in question.
That sucks! I returned my panasonic tv (basically for other reasons, but it doesn’t hurt telling them it’s for not wanting to have tv sets at home that run with pirated software).