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GOOGLE TV is coming!

phillyTIM

phillyTIM

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Google just announced that the Google TV platform will be unleashed THIS FALL 2010!

Google TV will come in at least three different ways: built-in to devices such as televisions and blu-ray players, integrated into the Dish Network satellite receiver and a stand-alone set-top box with included remote.

This is on a higher scale of even Boxee or Popbox, but does similar things to integrate a web experience of finding internet video to play formatted on your television.

Google TV may be the most versatile and/or economical web-to-tv solution yet! Will this be a replacement, or complement, for your HTPC?

Let the talk and drooling begin!
 
Didn't Apple already try this? Why will this work better.

The Sony integration kills it for me...Sony + me = early failure rate.

If you can get it through Windows 7 MC, I may be interested.
 
I'm not at all interested in this unless it allows me to ditch my cable and watch regular channels through the Internet. If all it does is add a search and access to internet video, who cares? Most set top boxes have a search functionality already, and if I want to watch something on the internet, I'll do it through my PS3 or my computer.

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Want. A Lot.

But seriously, I hope they give the PS3 some of this Google TV love.
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That's highly unlikely unless they offer regular channels streaming through the internet as the PS3 has no TV tuner.

:EDIT: After reading into it a bit, it seems like this thing is going to be sort of a media box. It allows you to purchase shows/movies from Amazon, etc and play them on the box, it can connect to your cable box and provide a better UI for it, and do some other fancy things. All in all, I'm still not very excited. I've already got netfix, and nothing about this really sounds all that appealing.
 
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Apple already tried this and failed... I don't think that amazon's set top TV services are doing all that great, either. I hope that Google does a better job!
 
If it's at least 1080i and supports upnp media I'll buy it. I've wanted to cancel my tv service for some time, access to online video and my own video library via upnp would be all I need.

I've contemplated using ps3's or mac mini's for this purpose.
 
So...it basically does what a Tivo or many newly released Blu Ray players already do? I'm just not seeing the appeal/upshot/omgwowzers.
 
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So...it basically does what a Tivo or many newly released Blu Ray players already do? I'm just not seeing the appeal/upshot/omgwowzers.
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Ditto. It seems like a Roku/Boxee box with a half-boiled DVR implementation (because they can't actually tune TV signals on the box). Unless they made it a proper DVR and then blew out everyone else (i.e. Tivo) with better internet streaming options, I don't see the point.
 
"Za Googlenet has becoming self avhare!"

Seriously man, soon we can expect Googlinator robots sent back in time armed with everyone's search-data info to crush all resistance.

Anyway, it does sound interesting.
 
So ok... I get that it lets you browse youtube, flash based websites, (or the internet in general), and includes a search based television program locator.. but does it serve as a DVR?

I've lost my patience with TiVo, waiting YEARS after repeated delays for them to sign a DVR HD deal with DirectTV. I hated the DirectTV's own SD DVR functionality and vowed not to buy a HD DVR directly from DirectTV unless it incorporated TiVo or some other company.
 
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Oh, I thought it had DVR functionality. It sounds to me like a media front end: it doesn't record or really do anything on its own; it just adds a nice interface to other sources. With an HTPC and PS3 that can already do everything a Google TV can and more, I'll have to pass.
 
What'll be interesting is to see how many manufacturers will include Google TV built-in to devices (TV or Blu-Ray) and see how it brings viewing shows/content from the web to the masses. It certainly could make quite a shift in the way content is provided to folks.
 
I don't really see the point. I would say that a great majority of people who would be interested in this already have an HTPC or PS3 or something else.
 
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