The revival of "Web-TV

One of the most obvious trend this month, Consumer Electronics Show (CES), has been the proliferation of flat panel TVs connected to the Internet. Almost every major producer of television shows on a web-TV integration, including states that the proposed Yahoo Widgets, the social network MySpace, and Netflix is built directly into the TV itself. This is not a "Web-TV in recent days, but an entirely new way to web-enable a living room. In this year of the "TV".
This is not your parents' Web TV

Remember Internet TV? He was still around, believe it or not, but now rebranded MSN TV. With a set-top box and keyboard, you can browse the Web from the comfort of your sofa. In some reason, he did not withdraw. From personal experience, after some initial oohs and aahs our household quickly bored with our Web TV box. If you use the service, too, you probably felt the same.

Why not? Perhaps people do not want to use the keyboard in their living room. Or maybe he just started early. Its heyday in the 1990's, when there was not, as far as compelling to watch. This was long before the launch of sites like YouTube and Hulu. Because of this and more, web-TV and does not become a revolution, that it would be.

But today we see a new attempt to restore order to bring the Internet to the living room. " Instead of a Web-TV, we see instead are TVs being called "connected televisions."
New Connection TV

Without a set-top box, the new "connected" TVs are all the Web components that allow built right in. This is evident, this is what will be the basis for their success at this time ... If you think that advertising.

One of the best integration includes Netflix deal with Korea's LG Electronics, Inc.Their partnership that will deliver a new line of high-DEF TV sets with Netflix service built directly into the set. With 12,000 titles to choose when you start, the TV is one that necessarily become very popular, if a company can get the right price.

Other manufacturers, including TV Samsung, Sony, LG, and VIZIO sets presented with Yahoo Widget integration of technology into their products. These widgets do not just give Yahoo content like sports and news, but rather to deliver a platform on which widgets can be built. He said Yahoo, their platform allows developers to expand its "brand, services and content to new users, creating a TV Widgets to help Yahoo Widget Engine.
Yahoo Widget Engine, now on TV

Yahoo Widget Engine evolved from Konfabulator platform, product, who made some of the first Web-based applications that are floating on your desktop computer. These widgets allow you quick access to news and information, which you can see, not to leave open the browser window.

Now, the same Web widgets can be moved over to digital television. Widget Engine provides entry-level framework and Widget Development Kit (WDK), which allows developers to code is constrained by the hardware capabilities of these new connected TV. In addition, Yahoo Widget Channel API will provide access to Internet technology, including in the Konfabulator JavaScript and XML, and HTML.

There are already several Yahoo! TV widgets are available now, and several more have been announced in the near future. In the section widget with Showtime, Netflix, Blockbuster demand, CinemaNow, The New York Times, USA Today Sports, CBS Fantasy Football, Rallypoint Fantasy Sports, Acedo Funspot Games, Flickr, and, of course, Yahoo (news, weather, Finance and video card), have been announced.
Chatter from the TV

Before we forget: there will also have a twitter widget. This widget could be just the beginning of a whole new area of interactive television. As we have seen on the channel CNN, some journalists are now using twitter to gather information in real time on the events of the audience. Imagine how many more people could participate if the chatter has been included on the television itself. In addition to news, other shows could use twitter for entertainment purposes, which allows live back channel, where you can tweet your thoughts or questions about the content you're viewing.
MySpace Brings social networks on TV

Among the widgets available today, Yahoo announced eBay widget, CBS Entertainment widget, widgets, and MySpace. This is MySpace, which has received the most press, because it would allow two-way interaction with the social network and friends while watching TV.

MySpace widget user can receive dynamic updates to friends, read and reply to messages, browse friends profiles, photos, and requests, and see the status and mood updates. It takes a single act of watching TV and turns it into something that could be more social experience. One can easily imagine a group of friends together view shows messages to each other throughout the viewing.

MySpace widget, like several others, will be ad supported. This raises the question if these new widgets can be a source of advertising revenue for producers. As more and more people time shift TV shows for later viewing, skipping through the videos with the remote control of your TV shows' advertising revenues were affected. Now, TV networks can easily create and deliver widgets for its most popular shows, giving fans interact with each other when they are viewed as a forum for numerous TV, as the board found on the internet today.

Of course, we could get ahead of ourselves here that last idea - nothing like this, it was announced. Nevertheless, we think it will be a good idea. (Who would not want to engage in lively backchannel ABC "Lost", for example? What's the smoke monster?)

Will connect the TV success?

Will the new Internet-connected TVs work with Web-TV "is not? It is possible. On the one hand, this time we do not simply transfer the Internet in its entirety in the living room, where many people already save their netbooks and notebooks for quick search Google or check e-mail while watching TV.

Instead, the TV experience to expand on the web technologies - which you can use or not use as you wish. If you just rest, you can simply enjoy a normal passive TV experience. However, for some events - the favorite shows, sports, news - you can interact with other users using the widget over social media, like MySpace and twitter. Other widgets, as news and entertainment listings will also be convenient ways to get a bite size information without pulling the computer.

The key point here, there is a new TV that the widgets do not interrupt, that people think of as "TV experience." Explains Genevieve Bell, an anthropologist and director of the group of users in the Intel Digital Home group of people have very strong bonds of their TVs. "Any attempt to add the Internet should be simple and not to interfere with the practices and behaviors of users enjoy." What does it mean that she said that the interaction should be done with conventional remote control - no keyboard or computer screen web browser.

The only question that remains whether people will buy a new TV set only widget? Probably not. This is a fun addition, but not a major breakthrough technologies such as HDTV. However, if you buy a new TV, in any event, a TV can certainly make your list as one of the sets for consideration.

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