Internet capability on TVs?

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 11:03 am

I'm going to be buying a new flat screen TV and wondered what the Internet capabilities are all about.

From what I can see it's only for streaming movies.

Is there other capabilities? Internet searching?

snoopy · Post by **snoopy** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 11:10 am

RTFM?

It probably varies by model.

**suppresses the urge to go off topic**

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 11:23 am

RTFM..........nice.

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 12:28 pm

Not sure but I'd fugure it's be for surfing the web and viewing pictures. Not really something I want to do on my TV.

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 12:35 pm

I use Tivo to watch most programs. Don't watch many things live. There are times when I want to search for something I've seen so I was wondering if there was a Google type search ability.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 1:11 pm

I wouldn't count on internet search / browser ability built in for quite a while. Doing so requires a more robust operating system and hardware than they currently want to pack into a TV and it also opens up avenues that could damage existing cable TV / content industry revenues.

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 1:17 pm

Thanks for the posts. Won't put that in my must have list.