Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Business Technology Research, also is seeing an accelerating convergence of content and display between PCs and televisions.

"People are watching videos and television content on their PCs, and doing some Web viewing on their TVs," he added. "You want to watch your streaming or downloaded stuff on the big screen with the big speakers, but it's inconvenient. There are browsers in the game consoles, and in some TVs, but the user interface is limited."

But Gottheil said this could be the time for this to all become easier.

And both Gottheil and Olds said Google, Intel and Sony could be the right mix of companies to make that happen.

"On their own, I don't think that Google can drive PC-TV convergence, but with Intel, Sony, and others involved, we might be seeing this long-predicted convergence finally happening," Olds said.