Dutch Internet provider to offer WebTV ~ Internet meets TV
Oct 04
According to Pieter Plaisier’s blog, Dutch internet service provider XS4ALL is experimenting with a service they call WebTV. WebTV is a new form of TV viewing where Internet and Television come together to reinforce each other. It is a form of TV viewing with the full capabilities and benefits of the Internet. This makes it much more inter-active, more personal, more fun and will allow you to watch TV on your laptop, desktop, iPhone, and even iPhone.
WebTV is at this stage still in an experimental phase, available to XS4ALL’s customer base where it has been received with great enthousiasm. XS4ALL will be tinkering with it and adding functionality in the coming time. According to Pieter Plaisier XS4ALL is looking at adding new and more innovative forms of interaction: links with social media (directly discuss and read comments from friends on Twitter during the broadcast), click through to Wikipedia and the IMDB and much more. When Internet and TV come together in this way, the possibilities are endless…
References
- Images and facts (Pieter Plaisier’s blog)