TV with an Ethernet connection are become a bestseller, tells the IT industry association Bitkom . After only 0.4 percent share in March last year, the vendor achieved with Internet-enabled TV sets more than one-third of its total television sales. But in June this year there were 167 million TVs for 159 000 € - for total proceeds of flat-screen TV in the amount of 463 million Euros. The average price for the hybrid-screen TVs with 1060 € lie clearly above the average price of 683 € for other TV sets, said the industry association.

Market observers iSupply expected for 2010 with 27.7 million sold worldwide web TVs - an increase of nearly 125 percent compared to 12.3 million units sold worldwide last year. Also for the coming years, analysts predict growth rates of over 50 percent: in 2014 worldwide to about 148 million web-TVs will be sold. Then were equipped than half of all flat-screen television (54 percent) with an Internet connection.