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03-22-2008, 10:46
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We re gradually starting to see a shift towards the ability of television viewers to connect to their PCs and combine television and Internet into one experience. The new and improved Apple TV was released (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/91125) this year. TiVo has just partnered (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/92660) to bring YouTube to your television. And television makers are starting to implement (http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_8660139) jacks that connect the television directly to your computer. The idea is that we will ultimately have a television that allows you full web capacity without requiring set-top boxes.
Despite these advances, television makers and cable companies say that they aren t threatened by the current market. Limitations on computing power for video streams and the capacity to provide big screen HD video hinder the service from being fully realized in the near future. Additionally, it is unclear how Internet navigation over a television set will work (whether there will be new remotes, wireless keyboards or some other alternative altogether). Until these issues are resolved, the cable companies feel that they can rest easy.
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We re gradually starting to see a shift towards the ability of television viewers to connect to their PCs and combine television and Internet into one experience. The new and improved Apple TV was released (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/91125) this year. TiVo has just partnered (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/92660) to bring YouTube to your television. And television makers are starting to implement (http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_8660139) jacks that connect the television directly to your computer. The idea is that we will ultimately have a television that allows you full web capacity without requiring set-top boxes.
Despite these advances, television makers and cable companies say that they aren t threatened by the current market. Limitations on computing power for video streams and the capacity to provide big screen HD video hinder the service from being fully realized in the near future. Additionally, it is unclear how Internet navigation over a television set will work (whether there will be new remotes, wireless keyboards or some other alternative altogether). Until these issues are resolved, the cable companies feel that they can rest easy.
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