{"id":143890,"date":"2010-01-06T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Skype-Headed-to-HDTVs-131251.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-06T05:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T10:04:00","slug":"skype-headed-to-hdtvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/143890","title":{"rendered":"Skype Headed to HDTVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/images\/newsrsz\/Skype-Headed-to-HDTVs-2.jpg\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" \/> You can watch music videos on your laptop, watch an entire season of Lost on your desktop, even sports events are now online. The PC is taking over the TV in a big way, but for once the TV is going on the offensive and borrowing something from the computer. No, it&#8217;s not Twitter, that has been done before , now TV viewers will have the option to chat with their friends and family with Skype from the comfort of their couch. It&#8217;s teleconferencing for the living room, or at least that&#8217;s what Skype and the manufacturers are claiming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&rsquo;re bringing Skype into the living room, so that you can share family moments &ndash; celebrating a birthday, organising a holiday or just having a chat with friends on a Sunday evening &ndash; all on the big screen,&#8221; Skype&#8217;s Peter Parkes wrote. &#8220;Thanks to our TV manufacturing partners LG and Panasonic, we&rsquo;ve been able to embed Skype in the latest generation of internet-connected widescreen HDTVs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The high-end TV sets from LG and Panasonic are hitting stores in a few months time, but will be unveiled at this week&#8217;s CES. These are pretty top of the range Internet-enabled HDTV devices. There is no word on the pricing, but the Skype functionality will require an additional video camera which will sell separately for about $100 to $200.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Skype on the TV, did anyone really need &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Skype-Headed-to-HDTVs-131251.shtml\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can watch music videos on your laptop, watch an entire season of Lost on your desktop, even sports events are now online. The PC is taking over the TV in a big way, but for once the TV is going on the offensive and borrowing something from the computer. No, it&#8217;s not Twitter, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}