I’m bullish on Google TV. Bullish. Well, bullish on the concept of Google TV and how it integrates with the current way most people consume television and the way we’ll all consume television in the future. Whether Google TV as a platform ultimately succeeds or fails doesn’t matter as much as the method with which Google has fused TV …
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Sony Unveils Internet Connected Google TV Products
Sony recently unveiled its line of Google TV products. As the first of Google’s partners to offer TV sets that integrate the Google TV software, Sony is selling 24-, 32-, 40-, and 46-inch models ranging in price from $600 to $1,400. Sony also unveiled a Blu-ray player with Google TV for $400.
I’m having a bit of trouble wrapping …
Two Minute Video: The One Killer Feature of Google TV
This holiday season will be full of TV boxes: Apple TV, Boxee, and Roku, to name a few. Google TV gets lumped in with all these other hardware boxes, but it does one main thing in particular that sets it apart from the rest.
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Logitech Vid HD Coming to Google TV, Revue Pricing Announced
Following up on our earlier coverage of Logitech’s plans to bundle a HD video conferencing service into Google TV, we now have the official details.
During today’s press conference it was revealed that Logitech’s HD video service Logitech Vid HD would come preinstalled as an Android app (Android Market for Google TV will not …
Breaking: Logitech To Announce Bundled Video Conferencing With Google TV Today
Details are scant at the moment but I just had a quick conversation with Logitech’s video business VP and GM, Eric Kintz about Cisco’s video teleconferencing announcement.
“We congratulate Cisco on bringing video calling to the living room – it’s a great day for consumers and the video communications industry. We’re …
More Google TV Details: Content Partnerships, Apps, and More
Google TV will be released sometime this fall, and while Google hasn’t yet provided us with an official release date, the company has taken the liberty of starting an official Google TV blog and flipping the switch on the official Google TV website.
The blog’s first post details some of Google TV’s content partnerships as well as …
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Internet TV’s Killer App is the Entire History of TV
For this week’s Technologizer column for TIME.com, I wrote about the new generation of Internet TV boxes, including Roku, Apple TV, Google TV, and the Boxee Box. As I say in the story, I love the idea of canceling my cable-TV service and depending on one of these gizmos to do my consuming of episodic entertainment. But here’s a shocking …
Must Be Nice: Google Gives Out Free TVs to Conference Goers
Man, bad day to NOT be in Paradise Valley, Arizona. Apparently Google gave away some 600 Sony Bravia TVs to guests attending its Zeitgeist conference. Not only that, the attendees also got Google TV (presumably built right into the Sony) and six months of free Dish satellite service.
Oh and free Geek Squad installation, too. It’s not
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Boxee Set Top Box Features 1080p Video, QWERTY Remote
Internet-to-TV video service, Boxee, has been available as a free software download for a while now, but the company has been working with hardware partner D-Link on a dedicated hardware box for the better part of a year.
The Boxee platform in and of itself grabs stream-able video from all over the web—YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, CNN,
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Eric Schmidt on the Future of Android, Google TV, and More
Google CEO Eric Schmidt took the stage at Berlin’s IFA conference to deliver the show’s closing keynotes. The full video is available here (it’s a little over an hour), and here are some of the highlights.
Augmented Humanity
The idea of “information at your fingertips.” Schmidt gave the example of a tourist using a smartphone to …
Google TV Is Nothing More Than a Creepy Eye Stuck in a TV
At least that’s the way Logitech is approaching the launch of Google TV and their Revue companion box. Creepy.
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6-Minute Preview of Google TV
Any doubts you may have about Google TV could be wiped away after watching this 6-minute demo of the upcoming service. It jumps between live TV, the DVR and the Internet without a hitch. Most notable, though, is the Google Queue, which by all accounts is a unified menu for any recording you may have – audio and video. Check it …
