A Smart TV is a television set with integrated internet capabilities.A Smart TV offer apps, media streaming, Web browsing, games and, perhaps most importantly, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV). IPTV is a specific Internet video standard, but is also used nowadays as shorthand for any video streamed via the Internet to your TV.
Smart TV is a portal to your friends and interests. Connect to social networks while watching shows, download interactive apps, stay in touch via video chat, use your bookmarks and favorites to navigate, and interact with TV like never before.

List of notable platforms

Following list encompasses notable Smart TV platforms that are used as framework by more than one manufacturer:

• Blobbox (software by TVBLOB in products by Telesystem, Tiscali TvBox)
• Google TV (Android based platform by Google, Intel, Sony, and Logitech)
• Internet@TV (by Samsung)
• MeeGo for Smart TV
• Mediaroom (by Microsoft)
• NetCast Entertainment Access (by LG Electronics)
• Viera Cast (by Panasonic)
• Vudu (by Wal-Mart)
• XBMC Media Center (by the XBMC Foundation and its open source community)
• Yahoo! Connected TV, formerly Yahoo! GoTV (by Yahoo!)