Internet video on your television, again

Amino Technologies is the latest company to make a play for getting consumer televisions loaded up with broadband content. With over 700,000 of their set top boxes being used in business sectors, they are ready to make the push into the lucrative, though perilous, home market. The AmiNET 125i comes with the Opera web browser and the ability to play Windows Media and MPEG-4 video. Amino plans to launch in the UK in a partnership with London based broadband video provider Narrowstep.

It's a road we have been down many times before, but it has never really caught on. I think that has mostly been a factor of bad timing. The fact of the matter is, the internet looks like hell on a standard definition television. The increasing adoption of HD sets will make something like this a more realistic possibility, assuming they can get the device to the plug and play installation level of a VCR or DVD player. I'd like to have one little box that gives me my TikiBar TV on the big screen. And with the ever increasing amount of broadband programming being put out by the networks, the time is getting closer for when this idea actually takes off.