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Google TV will bring the web to your telly
AN ON-DEMAND VIDEO SERVICE called Google TV, provided either through an Internet enabled television or its own brand digital box, has just been announced.
Describing it as an "entertainment hub" the search engine company says its Google TV is bringing the web to your telly and your telly to the web, if you see what we mean. This telly loving gizmo will search all your available channels, your recorded programmes, websites and more to find that elusive episode of Blake's 7. Google TV will also allow users to play music and photo albums through it, and it will come with a web browser.
Google TV will be "built into televisions" or can be used with a box of tricks, like those PVRs. All telly-addicts will have to do is type in what they are looking for and allegedly Google TV will find it. Google TV has functions such as picture in picture so a TV channel can be watched while a web browser is also being used.
The Google TV box will run Android and Chrome and will use Flash or VP8 for online video. The Google TV box will connect to existing cable and satellite set top boxes and can have multiple Android mobile phones acting as remotes because it has WiFi. Users will even be able to speak to the Google TV box through their phone and request specific programmes.
Google will also be releasing the remote control IP protocol to enable developers to create remote control functions on a range of mobile devices.
Watch a promo video here. µ
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current chip does not have vp8 support. Hoping to add it with software workaround or with next gen of chips
I'm all for internet on the 'big set', I do it at home with a wireless mouse/keyboard and it's the bee's knees. Oh, and if the computer crashes I can still watch TV while it reboots, because I'm using a HD TV as a monitor. I have also had the DVR reboot a few times, but then I can surf the internet while the DVR reboots. :)
IF (without actually knowing, it's a big if) the Google TV is a dumbed-down all-in-one computer with lots of video inputs that is on 'standby' when it's off and needs to reboot now and then, I call it a turd. If it's a TV with a seperate dumbed down computer that doesn't need to be on at all to watch TV, then good.
Computers crash, more complicated computers crash more often, and waiting for your TV to reboot is not a good viewing experience.
Since this will always benefit the corporation Google more than benefiting the users. I want Google to pay for my TV's and connection since it is just more profit for them in ad money!!
Amazing you sheeple love to pay to be spammed idiots.
I'm sure they will not be tracking all the stuff you watch and adding it to their list of all the stuff you search for...
I personally am not much of a couch potato, but when our schedules permit my wife and I to sit down to watch a movie or a certain program, this would make things a lot simpler. Think of a Google search for "movie" and "9:00 EST", and obtaining an easy list to peruse.
I hope this extends outside of the USA (as many programs on Hulu etc. currently cannot be shown outside the USA). Combining this with a VDR would be great.
Go Google!
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drashek
Google on the Goggle box? Looking forward to it :-)