Which would you choose? Watch your favourite television movie on your TV set or surf the net. For me, i will choose surfing the net instead of watching my favourite movie on my big TV screen. Reason is because, i can do more stuff on my PC eg surf net, check mail, watch movie, listen to music, stream youtube, blog and so on which i can’t do if i opt to watch TV on my couch for say maybe 2 hours or more.
“TV Meets Web. Web Meets TV” is the slogan Google is using for Google TV
Recently Google TV has launched the new generation of Web TV, Internet HDTV, Android TV apps with the capability of browsing web right from your television. It will totally change the way you browse the web and watch TV, by integrating modern HDTV and along with some devices which will be released very soon. It’s powered by Google Chrome, where you can access your favorite websites and watch TV simultaneously. You can have stuff such as photo slideshow, a gaming console, a music player etc on your TV now. Using Google TV, you can easily browse television channels, surf websites, use applications, watch movies and a lot more stuff.
Google had teamed up with Intel, Sony and Logitech as hardware partners for Google TV, to apply its Android software into TVs, Blu-ray players, and a Google set-top box called Buddy Box. Great news for developers with skills in designing Android applications, since Google TV is built on open platforms like Android and Google Chrome, developers can design Android apps for Google TV and also start designing websites for Google TV.
If Google TV succeeds in attracting more viewers, it may soon replace our standard cable TV. Plus, it will also increase its ad reach and accessing a whole new demographics of users.
In short, Google TV is an open platform free of restrictions and powered by hardware that can handle Flash.
Sony and Logitech said the sets and boxes will be available in the United States in time for the year-end holiday shopping season and be rolled out internationally next year.
Pricing for the TV sets or the set-top boxes was not disclosed.
Watch this introduction video for Google TV
Google I/O 2010: Google TV Keynote – Introducing Google TV
Google I/O 2010: Google TV Keynote, Day 2 – CEO Partner Panel
Google I/O 2010 – Keynote Day 2 Android Demo – Full Length
Google TV announcement at Google I/O 2010
Industry Leaders Announce Open Platform to Bring Web to TV
Google, Intel, Logitech and Sony Join Together to Deliver Google TV Platform
DISH Network, Best Buy, Adobe to Support Bringing Devices to Market
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (May 20, 2010) — Today at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, leading industry players announced the development of Google TV—an open platform that adds the power of the web to the television viewing experience, ushering in a new category of devices for the living room. Intel, Sony, and Logitech, together with Best Buy, DISH Network and Adobe, joined Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) on stage to announce their support for Google TV. Read more
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The future of TV belongs to TV. The future of internet and connected entertainment belong to desktop PC and mobile devices. Sometimes, surfing the net can be a very private affair. Unless I’m staying alone or I have a home theater room by itself, I won’t want to do it on a big TV screen.. I think Google is trying to do too much with Google TV.
It’s all comes to having more choices whether you prefer watching your personal stuff on ur pc or sharing entertainment materials on the biggest screen at home.
“TV Meets Web. Web Meets TV”…so, where is the future for laptop which is so popular today??
Laptop is for personal use and on the move because of its mobility. I guess the future of laptop will somehow evolve into something more high tech. For eg: walkman 30 years ago now become ipod
TV is meant for easy-access entertainment. If I have to surf through the net to access what I want like what I do with a desktop PC today, that Google TV will fail because ordinary folks will not like the UI experience…even accessing Youtube.
For laptop, you are right. My point is mobility is the key factor for internet entertainment, not TV at home.
That’s precisely why TV never dies and is growing by leap and pound despite lack of internet connection and contents.
Google TV very cool