Will Consumers Welcome “Web TV”?

Author: Matt

13 Nov

I chuckled as I read today’s USA Today cover story, “Could this finally be the season for Web TV?“.

The story quotes ABI Research saying that, “In 2014, consumers in North America will buy 45 million of these sets, representing 69% of all TV sales, ABI Research says. That’s up from 6 million and 14% of sales in 2009.”

I know for a lot of geeks have been leveraging such technology for quite sometime. For example, my good friends at Neuros Technology can attest to having created the Neuros LINK - an awesome device that connects you to the web for your own little jukebox of shows & movies. This came out over a year ago.

3 questions to each of you to think about & discuss with me here about this new technology:

Do you want to integrate your Internet & TV experience?
Won’t this mean we have to consider buying a new TV as often as a new laptop due to new features?
Since Yahoo appears to be the big player with this TV technology, will this level the playing field at all vs. Google?

Looking forward to our conversation about this…thanks!

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One Response for "Will Consumers Welcome “Web TV”?"

Kasey Skala November 14th, 2009 at 7:43 am 1
Matt, great questions.

I would assume there would be some auto-update features, much like what video games do now (XBox Live). If not, you’re right, it’ll fail due to having to continually upgrade your tv set.

I definitely welcome this “technology”. I have a friend who has the cords, plugins, etc, to view his computer via his flatscreen (different from this, I know) and that simple feature is convenient. How great would it be to be watching tv, needing to Google something and not having to pick up your laptop or go to your CPU unit?

We integrate our telephones, why not televisions?