Soon your TV will be getting media directly from the Internet, and the world will be a happier place.

The other day we mentioned Voter Registration Comes To The Xbox that you could now register to vote via the Xbox 360, and how we felt this was a sign of things becoming more interconnected and interactive.  Well, now comes news that Samsung, the world’s largest electronics maker, is abotu to unveil TVs that plug into your Internet connection to deliver information around whatever television show you are watching.

Besides these televisions being high definition, they will also deliver information via RSS, see the weather, get stock quotes and more.  Within 5 years, Samsung sees even regular content being delivered in this way, so that interconected world may not be all that far away.

We have already seen it in DVD players, placeshifting equipment, video game systems and more, TVs were the next logical step, and it seems that time has arrived.