Internet television has become so popular that some European broadcasters want to put it on TV — the one in the living room.

Within several months, viewers in Germany with specially equipped televisions may be able to watch public broadcasters’ World Wide Web TV services, which let users catch up on the television shows of the previous week, whenever they choose, via their computers.

In Britain, the BBC and several partners are working on a more ambitious project

to bring what is called catch-up TV and a variety of other programming and interactive services to television sets as soon as next year.

Why would viewers, who can already get dozens of channels by the air, via cable or satellite or through their telephone lines, need yet another way to watch TV?

Catch-up services, like the BBC’s iPlayer in Britain and Hulu in the United States, have attracted millions of users on […]

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