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Online AV is happening fast, but are you ready for the web-connected living room?
The first RSS-enabled TVs have already started to arrive in UK stores, courtesy of Samsung, and BD Live promises to take the Blu-ray audience online, but this trickle of online interactivity will soon turn into a flood, according to new predictions from industry experts. As a result, the living room landscape could be about to change forever.
It believes the number will internet-enabled consumer electronics will triple to 200 million components by 2013, up from 60 million this year.
The arrival of the web connected living room is inevitable, argues ABI Research director Michael Wolf: ‘Most forward-thinking consumer electronics vendors today are integrating IP ports in their mainline consumer electronics devices.’
He says that there’s now clearly ‘a push to bring web surfing, over-the-top video content, social networking and other web 2.0 applications to consumer electronics,’ via integrated browsing engines and dynamic user interfaces.
The adoption of web browsers into digital TVs is fast becoming commonplace in Japan and has also started to gather steam in the US, with new TV-linked web content delivery services from Sony and Panasonic.
ABI believes that Yahoo’s recent announcements about porting its widget platform to the living room via the CE-2014 HTML standard, devised by the CEA to bring web functionality to CE products, can only accelerate the integration of AV and internet. CE-2014 HTML uses a variation of Webkit, the same browser core used by Apple and Google.
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17-11-2008, 09:23 PM
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