January 10, 2009 by Andy Russell
Talk of some kind of convergence between TV and the Internet has been talked about as long as people have been watching videos online. However, it appears that 2009 may just be the year that people start getting serious about making it a reality. This year we’ve already had the announcement of the new LG TV that allows you to download film and TV from certain bespoke sites, now it seems that Yahoo are getting in on the act, and committing to making full synergy between the two mediums a reality.
At the CES in Las Vegas this week Yahoo has announced that it has made a deal with several companies, the big names being, Sony, Vizio, Samsung and LG, these companies will make HD televisions capable of running Yahoo’s online services. These new TVs, which should be with us by spring, will support small Yahoo applications which run alongside the regular programming and allow users to follow news stories, watch YouTube, use social networking sites, etc.
It’s still not quite full access to the internet from your TV but it certainly sounds like an improvement. Also, significantly, it’s a new market for Yahoo, one that Google and Microsoft aren’t involved in… Yet.
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