By 2011, just a year and a half from now, 100 million households worldwide will have a television set connected to the Internet, according to market researchers The Diffusion Group. A fifth of these sets, it forecast, will be linked to the Web via game consoles. The study was released at the same time that TiVo had signed a deal with CBS-owned TV.com that will allow users to download TV shows that are available via streaming on the website. Home Media Retail magazine, which reported the deal, observed that it was "unique" given the fact that both companies are essentially in the video-on-demand business. At the same time, Sherwood, the audio receiver maker, announced that it had signed a deal with Verismo Networks to include Verismo's technology in its receivers, thereby bringing online video content to Sherwood owners. In a statement Sherwood said that the deal gives "consumers the ability to watch millions of Internet videos directly on their TV."
18/06/2009
