Today on All Things Considered: TV on your PC? Internet on your TV?

10:23 PM | 1 Comments

While driving to a dairy farm near Eaton today, I heard a piece on NPR's All Things Considered about the forthcoming convergence of web and TV: Hooking up PC to TV could be near.

This is directly relevant to my "future of TV" story, but you guys might be interested, too. It addresses why and how cable companies are trying to keep TV and internet from merging. They also have a nice guide (web only, not in the radio piece) on what technologies will help you use internet on your TV right now.

Anyone remember WebTV, where you could have an email account and web browser on your TV, and surf wit a keyboard? (Is that what it was called?) When did that come onto the scene, like...7 years ago? I guess some things just take a while to actually happen...

--Jordan

1 comments:

KCN said...

Jordan-I had WebTV at least 11 or 12 years ago---soooo interesting!

March 16, 2009 at 11:06 AM

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