At the 2010 Google I/O conference Thursday, Google TV was unveiled. The demo showed that the technology combines the Android and Google Chrome to merge the web and television into a seamless experience. The Google TV allows users to use a search bar to discover programs instead of scrolling through a channel directory. Google TV also allows an Android-based phone to be used a remote, complete with spoken commands.
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Google's TV demo
Google TV’s Android capabilities will be built into Sony HDTVs and Blu-ray players. Logitech plans to sell set-top Google TV devices to hook into existing TVs. Washington Post explains that Google TV Android replaces the cable or satellite providers program guide with a search engine that indexes the total channel inventory and relevant web content for each channel. People can be running out for same day loans to buy Google TV devices when they hear that instead of wading through a grid of hundreds of channels, a search is typed in with either a remote or spoken into an Android phone. Google TV search on Android also provides web possibilities – if you will find no airings of a show, users can switch to Google Chrome instead for streaming episodes available on Amazon or Hulu. Users can watch a show in one corner and use the rest of the screen to browse the web. On a separate DVR, Google TV can also schedule a recording.
According to Google, “video should be consumed on the biggest, best and brightest screen in your house, and that’s the TV.”
TV devices by Google
Google TV partners contain Sony, which plans to launch Sony Internet TVs and Blu-ray players with Google TV in the fall, engadget.com reports . Logitech plans to add a set-top Google TV device with Harmony remote and an HD camera for video chat. Dish Network may also launch a Google TV box. The Google TV platform can be sold in Best Purchase retail stores. Google TV has a potential U.S. customer base of 60 million HDTV households in a $70 billion advertising market. The engadget.com article reports a total of 4 billion TV viewers worldwide — the biggest market in the world.
Google I/O calls for Google TV developers
At the Google TV demonstration at Google I/O 2010, Google called on developers to start prepping Google TV-ready apps. PC World reports that Sony and Logitech Google TV devices will certainly be powered by an Intel Atom processor. There are 3 main software components to Google TV. Although it will eventually be upgraded over the air, the service will run Android 2.1. Google TV will consist of Flash 10.1 and the browser is Chrome. Google TV should have the mobile version of Android Market working on it. If apps don't require phone specific hardware, any should work on Google TV.
A lot more data on this topic
Washington Post
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2010/05/google_tv_some_web_smarts_for.html
engadget.com reports
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/google-tv-turns-on-at-i-o/
PC World reports
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2364007,00.asp
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