Online content is about to enter your home in its most accessible format yet, as the big TV makers switch on to supplying an internet widget as standardFor a few years now, the television industry has been talking about “convergence” between the internet and television. It’s slowly becoming a reality: more and more people are connecting their computers to their TVs to view photos, listen to music and other activities that cross over between the two; now television manufacturers are starting to add functions to their TV sets that will allow people to share photos through social networks, play online games, watch YouTube and other material found on the internet. YouTube is a barometer of this shift, as people move on from watching short clips or videos to looking at longer works and whole programmes, and the BBC’s iPlayer, plus the versions from ITV and Channel 4, also make full-length programming available on computers.Now, people are starting to want to create on-demand TV via the net on their own television set.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/apr/08/intenet-on-demand-tv-youtube
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