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Internet capability on TVs?
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 11:03 am
by thewolfe
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?
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 11:10 am
by snoopy
RTFM?
It probably varies by model.
**suppresses the urge to go off topic**
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 11:23 am
by thewolfe
RTFM..........nice.
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 12:28 pm
by CDN_Merlin
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.
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 12:35 pm
by thewolfe
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.
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 1:11 pm
by Krom
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.
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 1:17 pm
by thewolfe
Thanks for the posts. Won't put that in my must have list.