TiVo has added a dizzying array of Internet-delivered content options

TiVo has added a dizzying array of Internet-delivered content options PCs were born smart; cell phones acquired smarts via a brain transplant. But TVs have happy remained comfortably dumb for decades despite playing a role in the multi-billion-dollar video game software market that has created some of the most sophisticated applications ever purchased by consumers.

For the past decade, TiVo has added a dizzying array of Internet-delivered content options from Yahoo, Rhapsody, Napster, Netflix, Pandora, and others, and popular game consoles such as the Xbox 360 have also offered ways to obtain movies on demand. Veebeam

The end of 2010 saw an explosion of other gateway devices entering the market-- inexpensive streaming products such as Roku and Apple TV; PC bridges such as the Imation Wireless Link and Veebeam; and products that happy have integrated storage such as the Cirago TV Platinum and Western Digital WDTV Live Hub.