The "smart" television has a long history reaching back three decades and there can be no single person or company credited with an "invention" as such.
The first televisions to have data services added were European domestic televisions with a broadcast text display service called teletext. It made an appearance in the 1970s and remained in use until digital television replaced analog broadcasts.
In 1979, "Viewdata" was launched - an online data service that used televisions to access data services. It used the same display systems as teletext but was an interactive service and used a telephone line for data transfer.
Since those times, television and computing have been moving ever closer. In the 1990s Web-TV was introduced as a television based internet service. Lacking many of the features of PC based internet clients, it had a mixed reception but nonetheless, it represented a fully interactive system although still used telephone lines (the only option for Internet access for most people at the time).
In more recent years, from around 2008 onward, televisions have had network features being added. The current smart televisions feature high speed Internet access with a range of apps, browsers and video on demand services. While significantly more advanced, the latest smart televisions all follow from the early data capable televisions f the 70s and 80s.
Television was invented, it was not discovered.Philo Farnsworth andCharles Francis Jenkins invented television.
Right after the television was invented. ;-]
it was invented in 1928
He invented the Television I think... he invented the radio I only know that he invented the TV......
They invented television for people who are bored or to make money from TV adverts.
the year tv was invented
The television set was invented in 1933
It wasn't invented for anyone in particular.
It was invented at Hull University
No single inventor for HD-TV.
WebTV was invented by a company of the same name, but was bought by Microsoft. The product operated like a computer, where a television was used as a monitor.
Television was invented in Britain. It was invented by John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor in 1924.