Bambuser - show the world. With Google TV, I May Never Leave The Sofa Again. I’ve seen the future and it begins on my sofa with Google TV. It isn’t uncommon among geeks to have your PC (or Mac) wired to your TV. A decent audio-out cable, an HDMI cable and you’re good to go. With this simple setup and a few tweaks to your TV’s input and display settings, you can watch YouTube videos (or anything else)—and that’s pretty cool. But Logitech’s Revue with Google TV takes the integration between television and the web to a whole new level. I was able to play with one for a few hours. Here are my five favorite things about the Logitech Revue with Google TV as well as a brief review of the functionality. 1. If you’ve ever wished that you could use the web on your 47 Inch hi-def TV, you’re probably going to want Google TV. Not only can you browse the web, but you can interact with it just like on your Mac or PC.
For those of you wondering how you can possibly do this using your TV remote control the answer is simple—you don’t have to. 2. 3. 4. 5. The Wrap Up. Google TV Will "Change the Way People Live their Lives" It's Google TV week, with major announcements coming from early application development and media partners and the unveiling of Google TV hardware from Logitech on Wednesday. How big a deal is Google TV? Mike Hudack, the respected CEO of free video publishing platform Blip.tv, wrote today that Google TV is the real deal - a technology that will knock down the walls between traditional broadcast studio TV and the long-tail of open video content produced by consumers, producing free choice and competition.
It will bring new and previously marginalized voices to the world's stage. Steve Jobs said in his latest Apple TV unveiling that consumers "don't want amateur hour" on their TVs. Google vs Apple will once again be the Open Web vs. the Curated Web, this time on TV. Open TV as a Game Changer "Every once in a while a product comes along which promises to change the way people live their lives," Hudack wrote in a post today.
We've had a Google TV in our New York office for a few months now. Un avant-goût de la télé du futur chez France 24. Google TV débarque en Europe l'an prochain... avec Free en France ? Sans véritable surprise, Eric Schmidt a confirmé lors du salon de l'IFA 2010 à Berlin ce que tout le monde prévoyait. L'entreprise américaine va bien lancer sa Google TV, véritable plate-forme hybride entre la télévision et Internet, dès cet automne aux États-Unis. Pour les téléspectateurs européens, il faudra encore s'armer de patience, puisque le service ne sera pas disponible avant l'an prochain. Le salon allemand a également été l'occasion pour Sony, l'un des partenaires industriels de Google, de révéler le premier téléviseur compatible avec la plate-forme de Google TV.
Bien que le prix et le calendrier de commercialisation n'ont pas été dévoilés, l'appareil s'est rattrapé en montrant quelques-unes de ses fonctionnalités, à la fois du côté de la télévision et du côté du web. Avec un marché potentiel de 4 milliards de consommateurs dans le monde, la télévision est désormais un enjeu financier considérable pour la firme de Mountain View. Intel: Don't Make TVs Into PCs. Between Google and Apple TV and a slew of Internet-enabled televisions hitting shelves this holiday season, it's only a matter of time before the keyboard replaces the remote control. Right? Not according to Intel Fellow, and Most Creative anthropologist Genevieve Bell, who, after spending years studying consumer habits, believes the PC isn't taking over the TV.
Speaking at a small Intel gathering today in New York City, Bell discussed how many companies including Intel sought to bring computers to the living room--and were met with near-universal failure. "Do you want to live in a world where your Tivo says, I'm terribly sorry, before you can see this next show, I have to defrag myself? Since coming to this conclusion, Intel has entirely changed its direction. Rather, Intel wants to bring the Web to TVs in the same way it was brought to the mobile space. "When the Internet comes to TV, that same reshaping will happen," she said.