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Google will announce the UK launch of Google TV
INTERNET SEARCH GIANT Google will announce the launch of its Google TV platform in the UK later today.
The service launched in the US in October of last year, but a release in the UK is finally on the cards with Eric Schmidt, executive chairman and former CEO of Google, set to unveil the service at the Edingburgh Television Festival today, according to The Telegraph.
The service, which was indefinitely delayed last December, works by using a special set-top box housing Google TV software, which will then allow users to watch TV or browse the internet, or even do both at the same time. The UK version will tout the BBC Iplayer and ITV Player as two of its primary online features.
Google TV uses Google's Android operating system and Chrome web browser to offer an interactive and internet-connected 'smart TV' experience, replete with apps, online TV guides, Youtube integration and everything you would expect from a merger between TV and the internet.
The service also boasts a link with Google's Android smartphones, which can be used as remote controls for Google TV. We wouldn't be surprised if we end up using our Android phones to turn on the tea kettle next, but unfortunately we might still have to manually fill it up with water.
Schmidt is also expected to offer an olive branch to the TV industry in his keynote speech, according to the Press Association. Google fell out with a number of major TV networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, who blocked transmission to Google TV devices after Google failed to secure a deal with them.
It's not clear what Schmidt intends to say to the networks today, but he will likely call for a partnership with UK television networks to avoid a repeat of what happened in the US. The situation in the UK looks better for Google, as it has already signed deals with Channel 4 and Channel 5 to show their content on Youtube, which could easily be expanded to Google TV.
Google is expected to launch the service in the UK within six months. µ
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The BBC offers one of the best TV services in the World for a little over £100 a year. It is unique. Some pay £90 per MONTH for a Sky package so they can watch maybe two football matches, with the rest of the programming they view being on BBC channels. It's their choice, yes, but it's still shocking value for money by comparison.
Google's Eric Schmidt had involved himself into crimes which had endangered human lives. He has not paid for his crime.
0. Updats of Stanford student May Zhou's case which Eric Schmidt used to threaten my life for sake of Sebastian
Thrun[ http://bit.ly/mayzhoucase ]
1. Message to The Hill, see Comments part in [ http://bit.ly/schmidttt ] to tell what's Eric Schmidt's problem.
2. ... Investigation from authorities on my tip confirms that MayZhou's case is actually a murder instead of the initially ruled suicide by police, and that it is people on Schmidt and Thrun's side who's behind May Zhou's murder case in order to threaten me and to terrorize Stanford. And the power on Thrun and Schmidt's side did try
to plot a murder on me while I was in California. Before the case could be ultimately clarified in public, neither
Thrun nor Schmidt's name is clear in such plotted murders ... [ http://tysurl.com/BsEnQ4 ]
If google want to get ahead in the market they need to take the reins and lead people away from the BBC. Most people in the UK are already annoyed with having to pay for a tv license, it's as though we're being stolen from simply for having a piece of wire somewhere that can pick up signals flying about us every day. Couldn't google end that buy offering a better service with no BBC input?