App-tastic: Internet services on TVs (screenshots)

by ZDNet Author | April 21, 2010 11:00am PDT | Image 1 of 17

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What a difference a year makes. In 2009, which saw the first serious attempts at TVs with built-in Internet services, we reviewed plenty of mixed bags. On the plus side essential streaming video services like Netflix and Vudu seemed to work relatively well, but on the minus side utility widgets (mainly powered by Yahoo) were sluggish, remotes were unwieldy, wi-fi was nonexistent and content selections were limited. In 2010, most if not all of those problems have been addressed by many makers.

The following photos are screenshots from 2010 TVs' Internet services. You can mostly ignore the pricing on those slides since it applies to the (generally expensive, big-screen) models we reviewed only but feel free to click through to the reviews for more details.

First up is, deservedly, Netflix. Hands-down the most popular streaming service on non-PC devices, it's available on the Internet-connected TVs of every major manufacturer.

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