Google TV launch announced
May 31, 2010 | Comments 1
US $ 70Million market with a broader coverage, We are talking about the US Television Industry. Let stop think about the whole world market !. Google-the giant in the web wanted to conquer the TV media with integrating Web into TV and TV into Web, and thats called Google TV. Google has finally announced the much awaited Google TV in partnership with Sony, Logitech and Intel. Rishi Chandra, Google’s group product manager said, “Google TV is a new platform that we believe will change the future of television,” at the Google I/O annual developers conference in San Francisco. Google TV will sport Android based graphical user interface. Complete Google TV supporting product is expected to arrive in Fall (September-October) this year.
Based on Google Android, this embedded OS will have Chrome web browser to surf websites and Android Market for downloading various apps. Navigation and interaction would be the two intuitive features of Google TV. The search function incorporated is expected to give faster navigation to TV channels, shows, movies, websites and apps.
Google is working with Sony and Logitech to put Google TV in their products like televisions, Blu-ray players, digital video recorders and other devices. These special devices would have Bluetooth and even Wi-Fi inside them. Intel would be providing Atom chip variants for these devices. Brooke Crothers of CNET’s Nanotech blog stated that Intel CE4100 system-on-a-chip would be the brain power in Google TV boxes.
Logitech would be coming out with a QWERTY keypad loaded wireless remote control. Google TV may also be designed to work on your existing devices. As usual Flash support also comes along in the Google TV and soon the SDK along with web APIs would be released for the developers. So users can expect more Flash applications and games on their TV sets.
With this new product Google has once again smartly jabbed Apple TV which comprises of physical hardware and a software to be used along with. Google has combined TV with web with its new platform and has opened up the sky for selling apps through Android Market.
We’ll have to wait when Google TV beta SDK is released. Get more information about Google TV at http://www.google.com/tv/.
See Google TV Keynote – Introducing Google TV by Rishi Chandra, Product Manager
As a DISH Network employee I know that DISH and Google have worked together to make your Google TV experience even better. DISH Network subscribers can connect their Logitech Revue to a 622 or 722 receiver and surf the web and watch live TV. DISH has even added a bonus for DISH customers to enhance the integration if it connected to the receiver and not the TV. When you do a search on the web it will search everything on the web for that category and your DVR recordings and any up coming events through your TV programming under that search. Get more information about this at the DISH Network website.