I’ve been toying with the idea of buying a Samsung monitor/television. It has a television tuner, is ready for the digital switchover, even has a spot for me to screw in my rabbit ears (I don’t get cable), and a 15-pin vga connector so I can use it as my monitor.

The drawback is that I wouldn’t be able to do work on my laptop while watching internet tv because it would be busy providing video.

Shelly Palmer is exactly right about it being a business rules problem more than a technological problem. I think there’s probably a tremendous story about the titanic battle being fought over standards right now, but I haven’t come across any good summation of that fight.

I am also fascinated by contemplating just how we are going to start getting Internet video to our televisions. Most recently I installed software from TiVo that enables me to play unprotected Digital Media files on my computer on my TV. It works by sending the digital files from my computer over WiFi to my TiVo.

Watch for future interviews about “getting Internet video to your TV”.