But computer monitors don't make great TV screens, networking won't be included in the first version's Christmas release and Microsoft's past TV-in-computers initiatives have failed dismally.
For one thing, he notes that the company did not originally subsidize the phone, although he notes that the company quickly fixed that issue by cutting the price of the original iPhone shortly after release, and then offering iPhone 3G at a subsidized price a year after the firstversion launched.
Smart TV Alliance plans to build on this firstversion and announce specifications of SDK 2.0 followed by the actual SDK 2.0 software release at the end of this year.