LG line LCD and plasma TVs will be called Broadband HDTVs and is expected to cost about $ 300 more than similar models without access to the Internet, said Tim Alessi, director of product development for LG Electronics.

Owners of television sets will not be able to browse the Web freely - TV “processors and memory chips are not up to the task. No Broadband HDTVs will have access to a range of specific video sites, and on Monday, LG will announce, in particular: Netflix.

Television will be able to stream any of the 12,000 movies and television shows in the Netflix library hours Instantly, many of which are provided Starz, premium cable TV service.

“It’s very symbolic”, Netflix said chief executive, Reed Hastings. “The Holy Grail has always been to provide Internet TV jack in addition to the cable jack. This early glimpse the long term.”

Hastings, which is profitable Netflix DVD-by-mail business, I do not think that the revolution will happen in the near future. People keep their televisions for a decade or more, on average, he said, so it will take years to broadband TV, capable of filtering in most American homes. Buying a video game console or Blu-ray disc player with the capacity of the Internet may still be better than short-term solution for many people.

Despite this, the more television people, such as Samsung and Panasonic sure to introduce similar devices, perhaps even at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. In the Sony Bravia televisions, you can use the Internet, with the addition of a separate module, but analysts expect the company to build such capacity in their sets.

For its part, Netflix, based in Los-GATOS, Calif., continues to expand its Watch Instantly victim. Also on Monday the company announced that it will add a few Showtime program of its library of video streaming, including the season premiere in the United States, Tarom, The L Word, and the Secret Diary of Call Girl.