Web TV was first introduced by Philips and Sony in 1997 which was later sold to Microsoft and came to be known as MSN TV.

However, the hardware is still known as web TV and is being manufactured by several companies for respective platforms. When we talk of web TV we actually mean this term for a complete group of products, services and technologies that bring web services on your TV.

Fundamentally, a web TV comes with some hardware and an adapter which has to be attached with your telephone and television. First it makes a connection to internet via telephone line and downloads web content and web feeds. Then it processes the downloaded data and displays it on the television screen. For user interactivity and navigational control a remote comes included in the web TV package. Some of the best known web TV products available are Apple TV for Mac, MSN TV by Microsoft Networks and the latest entry in the list, Google TV.

Through a web TV service you not only can connect to internet but also to the local TV networks. Any kind of data like music, video, text, graphics and images from the network or internet itself can be received on the TV set. If you already have an internet connection, with web TV you would get an additional internet port for another user. And if you don’t have internet it’s now fairly easy to purchase web TV and link it to your television and to your telephone line, thus connecting you to the net. There are various cool web TV apps which enhance the interactivity and boost up the user experience and most of them are free!

There are some really exciting features that web TV offers you:

• You can access the internet and media content on web like images and videos.
• It allows you to surf the net, send and receive email to friends, family or business collaborators all from your TV.
• View photos, create photo album and slides shows, download them from digital cam etc.
• Reading eBooks and eMags.
• With web TV the whole family can come together and have loads of fun and entertainment.
• Recent releases of web TV provide new features including a compatible Adobe PDF reader and Microsoft Office.
• You are able to surf the web with same speed as with a broadband connection so it’s fairly convenient for a user’s internet needs.
• Watch regular TV on same device
  

An appealing interface for your internet essentials is accessible as Web TV. Most of users will find it a great companion for their living room in Web TV!