I love watching web videos on my computer. But I would also like to be able to watch them on my TV when I am relaxing in my living room.
Of course, you can hook up a computer to your tv but naviagating through the web from your sofa is not that great. There is a company called boxee that offers a media center type interface on your computer that makes it easier to navigate the web videos on your TV.
You can also hook up apple tv and watch some videos, but not all the web videos. You can now watch youtube videos on your wii, but again not all the web videos.
I would also like to watch my netflix movies on my TV without all the hassle of mail order DVDs. You can get some of the movies from netflix directly on to your computer and TV (if you have tivo or roku settop boxes). I would actually like to have a choice of movies from multiple online stores to directly watch them on TV.
I will be able to do all this in the near future. It should have happened by now. What is the problem? Is it technical or is it because the media industry’s fear of destroying existing revenue streams? I suspect it is more of the later.
You know what I would like to see happen? TVs including a light weight software platform where we can run browsers and all types of applications (such as boxee) specifically designed for TV experience. This would make web TV be just TV (just like brodcast TV, cable TV, satellite TV etc).
I don’t know how long it would take for this to happen but that would be awesome.