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Over-the-top video delivery is now being promoted not just by web-based startups like Boxee and Roku, but by major electronics manufacturers as well.

One of the most remarkable, if least remarked on, developments at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was the incredible pace of innovation around connected devices, particularly HDTV sets and their increased capability for integrating over-the-top video. At last year’s show, a handful of manufacturers showed off a few Internet-enabled HDTVs and about all you could do with them was run a few Yahoo widgets and stream Netflix movies. At this year’s confab, nearly [...]