With the growth of smart phones and other “connected devices”, it is only logical that our televisions move into the next phase of “Smart Devices”. Smart TV’s are not only connected to your power board, but also to the internet.  As with most of our reason for “needing” the latest device, it is the convenience factor which is touted as the need for a Smart TV. You  can automatically access your music that is currently on your mp3 player, and play it from the TV, using your surround sound speakers. It’s not just all the fancy extra features that the Smart TV has, it is considered the way we will begin to utilise our televisions in the future.

No longer will our televisions be the flat show on the wall. They will be truly interactive. You will stream from your computer and phone, with full interactivity on your television. You will be able to browse the Internet, watch YouTube and manage your social networking all on the same screen. It will also allow you to watch television virtually on demand, especially with so many “catch-up” channels online, such as ABC’s iview.

So will this be the same discussion we had when cameras were being included in our mobile phones? “I just want a phone that makes calls” was a common rant, but now these same people probably accept the camera is part of a mobile device. How many of us will be saying “I just want a television to watch television on”?

What do you think?