You would be hard-pressed to find a screen today that does not get Internet access. It’s not just the PC and the phone – online content now appears in elevators, in the back of taxis and at your airplane seat. Some companies even tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to get the Internet displayed on a refrigerator door.So how is it that the Internet has largely escaped the single biggest screen in most of our lives – the television?An intensifying, and perhaps surprising, debate is playing out around this question and others. Should televisions be able to get access to the Web? And not just thin slices of the Web allowed by a few services, but the whole cacophonous, unregulated, messy thing? And if they should, how should they?
http://nytimes.com/2009/02/16/technology/internet/16chip.html
http://iht.com/articles/2009/02/15/technology/chip.php
TV, the Internet’s final frontier
You would be hard-pressed to find a screen today that does not get Internet access. It’s not just the PC and the phone – online content now appears in elevators, in the back of taxis and at your airplane seat. Some companies even tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to get the Internet displayed on a refrigerator door.