Mediagazer: Web Video, on Your TV, That Looks Like TV (Peter Kafka/AllThingsD)

7:45 AM ET, December 10, 2012

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Web Video, on Your TV, That Looks Like TV — There are now lots of ways to get Web video onto your TV. But in lots of cases that stuff still looks like Web video — clips you're not supposed to watch for more than a couple of minutes at a time. — So here's another attempt to blur …

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