Tositek » TV http://tositek.com Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:05:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 TV meets the Internet http://tositek.com/2010/tv-meets-the-internet/ http://tositek.com/2010/tv-meets-the-internet/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:20:22 +0000 Tositek http://tositek.com/?p=1552 The internet and TV are colliding. Or, as the industry calls it, converging. James McQuivey, an analyst at Forrester Research, says viewers are desperate to bring the everything-on-demand philosophy they have got used to on the internet to television. His firm estimates that 9 million Americans already connect their laptops to the television to watch videos -– everything from camcorder clips, through YouTube and Hulu (a broadcaster-funded venture similar to the BBC’s iPlayer), to movies downloaded via file-sharing services.

“Internet-connected television is already happening in the US in larger numbers than people are aware. It is just that people are doing it in a DIY capacity. This is not rocket science any more: you walk your laptop into the living room and use a VGA cable to connect it to your TV. But while it is not rocket science, it is not drop-dead simple either, so the fact that 9 million people do it even periodically is amazing.

TV through the internet is here to stay

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