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Yet another report on the connectedness of our TVs has been released and shows that some one in five US households have a connected TV be it solo or through a game console. In fact, game consoles lead the charge, but that’s sort of a recent development.

Continuing the trend of screen convergence, Boxee has released the USB Live TV dongle for its Boxee boxes along with version 1.5 today. For those that don't want a full-on premium TV subscription, but do want local channels, can now get that along with your online video entertainment without the need to buy an all new television.

Boxee will give you the ability to share what you're watching straight to Facebook with a new expansion of the integration of the service into its software.

Boxee version 1.5 will be the last PC client there is, it seems they no longer want to support that build your own Boxee box initiative. It's partly because they see the Internet TV revolution moving away from Boxee-style boxes and instead going to connected TVs and secondary devices.

Man, gaming consoles have way more capabilities than when I was playing my Sega Genesis nonstop back in the day.

Boxee is breaking the mold it set for itself and will now begin to include a new Boxee Live TV Tuner according to GigaOm who got an unreleased version of the Boxee 1.5 update which will be released soon. From their article it seems that Live TV is ready to be integrated into the Boxee Box. On the downside, it looks to require a USB digital TV tuner and antenna, though you can apparently also plug in coax.

If one-eighth of your video views are coming from mobile, then you are in good company as Break Media just reported that 12% of their video views come from mobile users . That’s a pretty good portion and shows the ever-increasing interest in mobile video viewing. They also announced that they have passed 1.5 million downloads on their mobile app, so it’s no surprise that they’re seeing such a large piece of their video views on that screen

AOL HD is continuing its march into your living room with its latest announcement that it will start pushing content to connected boxes . Now that doesn’t mean that everything will instantly have an AOL video button or app, but so far, they are targeting the major players in the Internet TV device market.

Earlier in the year Netflix announced they would have a dedicated button on remote controls for connected devices coming from some manufacturers. Wal-Mart obviously thought that a brilliant idea and so got those same manufacturers to put some Vudu buttons on the remotes as well.