Comments on: GE brand to grace Internet-ready TVs in 2009

A new joint venture between General Electric and Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer Tautung will market LCD TVs next year in the U.S.

[deepstyle206]

this is the future of entertainment ... bringing highspeed internet and hd televions together offers a truely interactive experience for the consumer!

[randall3um]

Internet availability is much too limited as it is, so integrating the internet experience with any typical media experience will force the IPs to step up, provide a more seamless union between the cable/satellite offerings and their own offerings, and bring this world to where it should have been at least 10 years ago. This marriage of networking and media is only a natural progression of the expansion of technology in our ever-growing world. To deny this next step would limit our educational, governmental, and entertainment bodies from providing what we all want - Everything...and Now!!!

[DarkHawke]

Sounds cool, but what really excites me about this announcement is that GE/RCA/ProScan analog TVs were the ONLY ones to feature the miraculous invention known as Commercial Skip, whereby you press a button to start a 30 second on-screen timer (and subsequent presses add 30 seconds at a time up to 4 minutes), then you can surf to any other channel you like, and when the timer hits zero, you're automagically popped back to the channel at which you started! It's a wonderful feature that I've enjoyed for the better part of 20 years and I've only seen it with HDTVs on an RCA DLP set that maxes out at 720p. I'd love to see this in a new, quality HDTV, along with all that internet connectivity wonderfulness!

[toddlorensinclair]

I don't like the idea of being tied with to a provider. Also most important is the interface and ability to pause and skip commercials.