Shelly palmer digital living room

I was moderating a Socratic discussion entitled, Digital 101: The Evolving Living Room at the recent Digital Sports Summit and I wanted to stir things up a bit, so I decided to ask my panel the wrong question, “Considering the amount of personal devices people are using to consume media, is there really a living room left to fight for?” Even though I asked the wrong question, Eric Anderson, VP of Content and Product Solutions, Samsung had the right answer, “We’re not fighting for the living room, we’re fighting for the account.”

Fasten your seatbelts; this is going to get rough.

According to Mr.

Anderson, Samsung, makers of exceptional consumer electronics, will sell over 8.5 million Internet connectible flat screen television sets this year. And, approximately 5.5 million of them will be broadband connected and registered online within a week or so of being purchased.

This stopped me in my tracks.