By 2015 more than 43 million homes are expected to have Web-connected TVs, says Forrester Research.
There's arguably more TV content viewed on PCs than there is web content consumed on TVs.
Before this year is out we'll see smartphones and tablets with "Intel Inside, " as well as new products built around Intel processors, including "connected" (Web-ready) TVs, DVRs, Blu-ray players and set-top boxes.
Even Samsung, the world's largest TV maker, admits that 3-D TV hasn't lived up to the hype, and the company is now exalting web-connected smart TVs as its next big source of growth.
Several other companies are producing Web-connected boxes that can hook up to TVs, but those could be less desirable as new TVs come with Wi-Fi functions and Web features built in.
Samsung's Baxter says less than half of people who buy the company's internet-enabled TVs actually connect them to the Web.
Opera Software was founded in 1994, based on the idea that access to the web should be a universal right. 300 million people (and counting) use the Opera web browsers for computers, mobile phones, TVs and other connected devices.
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Skillman also recommended that manufacturers embrace emerging trends like gesture recognition, the convergence of phones, TVs and computers and the move to embed Web browsers in everything from printers to cars.
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One of the curiosities of so-called connected TVs, which directly plug into the Internet to access web applications and services, is that they rely on external camera attachments to support video calls.
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The BBC went and developed a news application for connected TVs to complement its 24-hour television news channel and web site.
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"By partnering with Roku, and developing a line of new Mitsubishi TVs that will support their new Roku Streaming Stick, we will be able to offer the best big screen TVs and the most powerful internet streaming device together, bringing web-based entertainment to a whole new level for our customers, " said James Chan, vice president of marketing, Mitsubishi Electric Visual Solutions America (MEVSA), Inc.
PayWizard supports transactions made on multiple devices -- including online, iPads and other tablets, smart phones, connected TVs and digital set-top boxes -- and features a unique, web-based management dashboard that provides detailed real-time activity reports as well as valuable, actionable marketing information on viewer behaviour.
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