Dutch company Philips Electronics on Wednesday unveiled a television set featuring a wireless connection to the Internet and PCs, enabling it to play music and view pictures and video from the Web or computers. The product, which was shown at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas and which is not yet on sale, adds to a range of networked products manufactured by Europe's largest consumer-electronics maker.
Philips is already selling an Internet-connected hi-fi set that can play radio channels available on the Web. It has also announced home servers that can pull music and video from the Net and transport them to TVs and hi-fi sets that consumers already have in their homes.
For the recent holiday season, the Dutch company began selling the product through European telecom operators such as British Telecom, Spain's Telefonica and Dutch KPN, which hope to sell more broadband Internet connections.
Philips's Asian rivals also have started to sell networked consumer-electronics products.
The company launched other new products at CES, including new portable music players, ambient lighting and a hard disk/DVD recorder with a built-in electronic program guide.
