Internet TV is fast coming into its own, as high-profile players announce products that promise to change the way consumers digest video content.
Google
is rolling out services with partners like Sony this year that will blend
streams from the internet and broadcast programming on television screens.
Hulu,
the popular online video site, recently unveiled plans for a paid service that
will deliver broadcast shows over the internet to computers, TVs, the iPhone
and iPad, as well as several gaming consoles.
Meanwhile,
Sonic Solutions struck a deal with Sears Holdings to provide its retail
customers online rentals and downloads of movies and TV shows over an
assortment of internet-connected devices.
The
approaches vary, but they all present alternatives to what most of us have come
to think of as normal: Paying to pipe in a handful of channels we want -- along
with hundreds we don't -- in order to watch the few programs we're interested
in, largely at the time we're told.
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