Some people liken the Web's torrid growth to television -- but TV ads grew far faster.

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The rumored future Apple TV could disrupt the current television paradigm by putting on demand and web content side-by-side with live television, all in a unified, innovative interface.

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So back to Apple TV, which is not trying to harness the great wide web and put it on television.

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Second, since tablets are often used while watching television, tighter integration between the TV commercial and the tablet-based Web experience should be mandatory.

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Dr Schmidt said the internet was transforming television, even though people still spent much more time with TV than the web.

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Tempur-Pedic distributes its mattresses through 4, 430 furniture retail stores in the U.S. (and 3, 300 international stores), as well as through its Web site and via telephone orders generated by its television infomercials shown late at night when TV advertising time is the cheapest and insomniacs are most likely to be on the prowl for a solution.

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TV, for instance, is simply to make it easy to browse the Web and send e-mail via a television set instead of a computer.

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Because the XPS One, made by Asustek of Taiwan, has a built-in television receiver that makes it as easy to watch and record cable TV as to surf the Web and download videos from YouTube--finally delivering on the long-awaited prophecy of TV-PC-Internet convergence.

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