I've always assumed that none of them will really end up with proper browsers - just content portals full of pre-selected channels from commercial partners. This is how we will all get shut out.
From the article: "Philips is calling its internet service Net-TV. Devices in the 9000 series work with WLAN, while those in the 8000 series and the widescreen 21:9 models work with LAN connections. Unlike other manufacturers, Philips allows the internet information to take up the entire screen. The user gets started by navigating to the Net-TV home page. Philips has established partnerships with content providers willing to adapt their content for the TV screen. In Germany this includes major web sites like tagesschau.de, bild.de, kicker.de and YouTube as well as MyAlbum as a photo archive. It's also possible to enter in internet addresses directly, although Net-TV is unable to work with either Java or Flash. At Panasonic the internet mode is called Viera Cast and involves little program windows surrounding a reduced-sized TV image. These "widgets" show the weather, stock prices from Bloomberg TV, latest headlines and videos television stations as well as clips from YouTube. Viera Cast is slated to be integrated into the V 10, G 15 and Z 1 devices. Samsung has dubbed its programme inter...@tv. It provides only one program window next to the TV image. That can be YouTube clips, as well as headlines or weather reports delivered from Yahoo. The photos section is provided via the Flickr service." On 24-May-09, at 8:01 PM, Enric wrote: > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Josh Paul <joshp...@...> wrote: > > > > This largest hurdle I foresee is getting apps to run on the tvs, and > > how well each manufacturer adheres to any given standard. > > > > I believe most manufacturers have signed on to use tru2way, which is > > based in Java, which is now owned by Oracle. > > > > Does anyone foresee Ellison making some type of grab here? If so, > will > > it kill the platform/adoption? > > > > My impression is that the main, first iTV's use a closed software > architecture of widgets, i.e. Yahoo Widgets. There's one or more > that have open software, but very expensive. It probably won't be > until next year that open software iTV's will be affordable that > anyone can write software to. Things may have changed since I last > looked into this...let me know if otherwise. > > -- Enric > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
