Widgets Not the Way for True Internet TV

The NYTimes’ Matt Richtel writes about the delays in true convergence between TV and the Internet: (1) Consumers think of the TV as a one-way communication tool. (2) Manufacturers, operating with tight profit margins, don’t want to sink another $100 into each set. (3) “The reality of opening a television up to the Internet and, potentially, the viruses and hiccups that can creep in from outside.”

But it will happen. And one former Intel exec says Widgets, which are being

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