If you're like me, your first reaction to hearing that the web is available on your TV is "why?" The answer is quite a bit different than you might think. The answer is not that you want you want your TV to go out to the web to browse content, which is by and large not the most inspiring concept. The answer is that you want web content brought to your TV. In other words, the Web and all the interactive web 2.0 tools are tools that are well suited to bring rich content to your TV.

Ravenexus Summer of Code project is a great example. Check out this video capture of it in action and you'll quickly understand that the point of the web browser is not "browsing the web" per se, but as a tool that allows all kinds of participation in an integrated TV experience that hasn't existed before. Wiki information populating information about shows and artists is just the beginning. Links to shared favorities, community feedback, etc are all vastly more realistic when the tools to bring them are webtools rather than the typically embedded morass.

Think about it, there are tons of folks that have creative, collaborative communities that would be beautifully suited to power the TV set, but start to talk with them about serial cables, cross compiling and C and well, they move on pretty fast. If the proposition shifts to using a set of web tools, well then it becomes pretty interesting. We're not entirely there yet, but if you understand the value of this, check out the mailing list thread to see status, it still needs to be optimized. Likewise, if this is a vision that makes sense to you, let us know. Comment here, post to the forums, mailing lists, write to me jborn at neurostechnology dot com, anything! As anyone who knows Neuros, knows, we're listening, and your voice will go a lot further than you might expect.