WSJ.com - Plugging the Web Into the TV

Timely snapshot from the WSJ: 

The idea is not to simply beam whatever is on the computer screen to the TV. There's not much demand for reading email or viewing ordinary text-heavy Web sites on a 42-inch flat screen. Instead, tech and media companies are using the Internet as a conduit for transmitting selected content, just as cable is a conduit for getting programming to the TV. And the Internet opens the possibility of sending virtually unlimited content to the TV -- from foreign-language films to archived TV shows from the 1960s.

 

Source: WSJ.com - Plugging the Web Into the TV