Game Consoles Most Popular Web to TV Device
Internet TV is all well and good but when you want to see it on the big TV screen, game consoles are the number one method for watching web streams on your television set.
According to research by In-Stat, consoles will be the preferred medium of Web to TV devices. And by the year 2013, over 10.7 million will be in use for this purpose.
It makes sense of course, everyone owns an Xbox or Playstation and most people hook it up to the big TV screen. Microsoft have 30 million Xbox 360′s in the market and Sony 23 million units. Add Nintendo to the mix and you have a lot of popular devices ready for online TV.
Other Internet TV devices such as Tivo are actually losing subscribers, Roku and Vudu arent exactly setting the world on fire either. The survey also suggests that by 2013 the number of US households watching Online TV will rise to 24 million from the current 2.5 million currently.
The Console manufacturers realise the potential and are all jumping aboard online TV and turning the humble console into an entertainment hub. All the big guns are lining up content partners and Microsoft have already added a Netflix capability to its consoles. Youtube is rife in console land and it will grow and grow.
Currently hooking your PC up to your television screen is not the easiest thing in the world to do, but imagine being able to browse and watch straight from a device you already own and use for gaming.
It makes perfect sense, but just means i’ll need to upgrade from my Playstation one now.
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Just think about it. 90% of homes must have a games console that is maybe on 30% of the time. An obvious device for watching television when your joystick has had a good thrashing.