Yes, we have interactive TV, WebTV, and set-top boxes. The TV screen wasn't meant for things other than TV content, and we haven't found ways to make either one fit the other, because that's hard to do when Web content and the VGA screen, dimensions, resolution, and phosphors have such an intimate relationship. Others ask whether e-mail is meant to be read in the privacy of your family room. More recently, the game console has been seen as the best candidate for on-line access in the home. But other technical factors are involved as well.
Web content is a little too easy a phrase.
This is an easy thought, but a complicated reality. These exist for the most part in the x86 realm and would have to be rewritten and painfully optimized again for other processors in order to provide meaningful rendition of Web content. Even with their resources, rewriting or coercing others into rewriting these decoders for another processor wasn't an option. That's why, for the time being, for our Home Audio Reference Platform, for wireless Web tablets, for the eVilla and similar devices, for a genuine Web experience on something nimbler and friendlier than a PC, we like the x86 architecture and the PC clone organ bank, software organs included. Inc. All rights reserved.