WSJ writes:
Movies and videos are exploding on the Web, but watching them isn’t the laid-back experience that consumers are accustomed to with TV. Viewers have been constrained to the relatively small screens of their laptops, digital-music players or personal computers — away from big TV screens and comfortable furniture of the living room.
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The idea is not to simply beam whatever is on the computer screen to the TV. There’s not much demand for reading email or viewing ordinary text-heavy Web sites on a 42-inch flat screen. Instead, tech and media companies are using the Internet as a conduit for transmitting selected content, just as cable is a conduit for getting programming to the TV. And the Internet opens the possibility of sending virtually unlimited content to the TV — from foreign-language films to archived TV shows from the 1960s.
