The Technofile Web site has moved. The answer may disappoint you if recent Web TV ads have caught your eye. Although the idea behind Web TV makes sense using your TV to view World Wide Web pages delivered through a cheap set-top box the execution is far from satisfactory for normal Web browsing. The problem is easy to see, and I mean that literally. TV screens do a poor job of displaying text.
Small type is fuzzy and indistinct on a TV screen.
You're not likely to be happy with Web TV if you plan to browse typical Web pages. You won't find many pages like that. Web TV's own sites are exclusively made up of pages with big type and simple images, but you'd probably have a very hard time finding similar pages beyond the Web TV domain. Surfing the general Web is guaranteed to be a frustrating experience. Web TV does have one big advantage.