There was quite a little ecosystem in that space around 2000. Liberate technologies, OpenTV and Microsoft were all jockeying to fuse the browser and TV. I wor

There was quite a little ecosystem in that space around 2000. Liberate technologies, OpenTV and Microsoft were all jockeying to fuse the browser and TV. I worked on Liberate's product for a little while which looked a lot like Android. (at least the fire TV version) Turns out that like CD-i no one cared. Liberate had a blockbuster IPO which fell to earth long before anyone could sell. (I think my boss from that time actually worked on CD-i)