The EETimes published a piece yesterday about iSuppli’s recent study on home networking and its drivers.  The biggest takeaway we took from this was the absolutely huge number of respondents who were looking for a connection between their digital TV and the Internet — 61% of respondents found this to be feature that they agreed or agreed strongly that they needed.

Good news for Internet (as opposed to IP) TV providers, and to home networking gear manufacturers, but from our perspective adding the almost limitless amount of entertainment content on the Web to a TV screen won’t be worth the effort without an effortless mechanism for  actually getting that content displayed. Search, aggregation and metadata all play a big part here — but the actual interface with the Web on the TV is just as big an issue.

So this is where we think motion control comes into play — bringing the mouse to the TV. Yesterday’s announcement of the Logitech Freespace Navigation mouse is a great example here (for PCs bringing the Internet to the TV), the Wiimote is another (as more Wii content becomes available online). Where these technologies will pop up next on the TV is one of our obsessions around here — so stay tuned!