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It’s one of Holy Grails of the technology business bringing the explosion of video on the Internet on the television sets. But so far, the growing awave hardware devices that let users watch online videos in their living rooms have not taken off. First the research estimates Apple has sold only about 400,000 of its i-pod TV product which let users watch You-tube videos and mainstream movies and TV shows purchase through i-tunes in a comfortable couches.

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That’s a far cry from Apple’s huge success in the music business with the i-pod. TiVo has sold fewer than 2 million of its digital video recorders that can download internet video. The company has a deal with / Internet retailer Amazon that let users buy and rent TV shows from their TiVos. Executives from the technology and entertainment industry said the products were generally too complicated, too expensive and lack broad selection of content. Still, internet video devices keep coming, a new start-up, Vudu, recently begun selling the 399 dollar player that let users download movies from a selection of thousands of titles on the Internet. The product did has developed a method that let users begin watching movies without delay, one of the households' most internet video devices. Still, some analysts and industry executives predicted that the company’s most likely to be successful in bringing online video to the living room are the once that already delivered KTV to consumers, cable, satellite and telecommunication providers.

I’m Nick Winfield with the Wall Street Journal.