Re:Why TV Lost
by sachinag on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @01:27PM
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Frankly, they're doing it now. As it is, the cable/satellite box is a computer. IPTV makes the packets conform to what we think of as "internet traffic". And there's OTA television to mobile phones in Japan. Boxee is nothing more than a purpose-specific browser.
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Your tv may already be a computer, as well. Recent Samsungs run embedded linux, for example.
Hmm... by computer I was assuming pg meant general purpose devices connected to the Internet, but I see how that line is blurring since the backbone for everything is the Internet as opposed to a proprietary cable network.