Google is set in motion something called Google TV . It bring even TV and web television to your TV . Plus , Android apps . Apps ! Live update
Google says there are two world now , the web , which live on on your laptop and your phone , and the TV cosmos , which endure on your television .
But why are n’t the solution today making grip ? Here are 3 reasons , according to Google .
1 . They dumb down the web for television set . You ’re re - creating the World Wide Web . “ It ’s WAP all over again . ” “ We need to get a way to bring the integral web to the television . ”
2 . “ They ’re all closed . ” Once you may go anywhere on the web , you do n’t require to go back .
3 . The solutions today make you choose between web or video . If you have to switch between the two , it ’s over . You ’ve lose users .
Google wants to incorporate both into “ a single unseamed experience . ”
And here ’s a demo explaining HOW this stuff all play .
“ Google TV starts with TV . ” This is your tv set . “ You only can add and enhance it . ”
But how do you find something to watch ? Right now you use the Guide . “ What if we re - think the navigation of TV ? ”
Google want to give you the exact same experience on television as Google on the computer .
( Some technical difficulties here . ) In the meantime , here ’s a small explanation .
So Google bedevil in a Google search box . For example , if you search for MSNBC , you chance results from your TV and from the web . If you take the television receiver TV channel it go to your video channel .
Now he ’s typing in 30 Rock . If see a succeeding result , you could tell your DVR to memorialise it .
Hereis a mini internet site .
( More expert difficulties with connectivity . They ’re asking us all to turn off our phones . )
Now , they ’re searching for “ House ” . So they pulled up a special series solution , so they can pull together substance from tv set and content from the web , together . So all the web contentedness is list as well .
Selecting the Amazon ’s page leads them to Amazon ’s page — not reformatted in any way . you may buy or toy the episode . Problem is with not reformatting the Thomas Nelson Page is that the text edition becomes tiny in the aliveness room .
Here ’s the domicile screenland . It ’s a quick rocket launcher for poppycock ( and apps ) . They ’ve put to work with Amazon VOD and Netflix to engraft their capacity inside the home plate pageboy of Google TV . Here are suggestion which are personalize based on what you ’ve previously watched .
“ We can go much further than just YouTube . ”
you may also search apps . Which think of there are apps . APPS .
Another demo : searching for the 2010 State of the Union , finding outcome on the World Wide Web and then go to the White House website to watch clips .
How about augment TV ? Here ’s them putting the TV in a picture in picture . So he searches up the clobber he wants ( box grade ) while the TV is still going on . So he can track what ’s going on on the secret plan in the giving windowpane and watch the plot in the little windowpane .
More instance : Seeing a twitter flow about what you ’re observe now . Or bring an ad from what you ’re determine on TV into a web lookup .
What else ? pic reckon on your TV . Facebook plot / Flash games on your television set . Music site ( Pandora ) . Anything on your web can be on your television set . So yes , this has Flash reenforcement .
How about the specification ? Four components .
• Wi - Fi and Ethernet built in .
• colligate your existing cable of satellite box using HDMI . It come with an IR blaster to do controller . you could also use an IP protocol between Google TV and Dish ’s satellite box .
• “ mess of processing superpower so we can browse the integral web . ” environs sound , dedicated GPU .
• A keyboard and a pointing machine .
” Our hardware partners have come up with designs that you ’ll fuck . ” So Google is NOT the one making the computer hardware , as usual .
But you may use your Android phone to control your TV when it ’s tethered . let in part hunt . you could also have multiple remotes tethered simultaneously .
How about if you find a cool internet site or television on your phone ? you’re able to then push it forthwith to the television set and watch it on the TV .
Google is publishing the IP communications protocol so you could make your OWN remotes for PCs and tablet and make it connect to Google TV .
And here is the keyboard that they were present with . I believe it ’s Logitech , but I ’m not 100 % indisputable .
Here ’s the operating system : Android . The internet browser is Google Chrome , naturally . And it has Flash 10.1 plugin for Chrome . But what ’s the deal with Android ? you may get Android apps on your TV too . “ Soon , you may . ”
you’re able to pull up the nomadic translation of Android Marketplace on Google TV . “ If your app does n’t ask phone - specific computer hardware , it should mold on Google TV . ” They ’re draw down Pandora , the wandering app . It run on Google TV .
you could also download apps from your computer onto your Google goggle box wirelessly .
Here ’s a sampling Google TV app . YouTube Leanback . It ’s customized for you . It starts up and plays ( you do n’t need to browse for anything . ) Your acquaintance ’ favorited videos get sent to you , your subscription get pushed and other preference affect what you see .
( Bluetooth devices are still step in with the demonstration . )
Here ’s a very cool closed - captioning translation feature , taking the closed captioning feed and go it through Google Translate .
And now , mate ( computer hardware makers ) and timelines ( when this is coming to market ) .
There are depart to be three Google TV devices . First , Sony . They are going to be launching Google TV desegregate TVs and integrated Blu - light beam instrumentalist .
Also , Logitech . They ’re going to do a companion box ( place top box ) . And they will make keyboards and peripheral just for this .
And they ’re partnering with Intel to put an Atom in there .
Also , Dish , for an enhance satellite experience .
It ’s going to be sold at Best Buy . All this will come in Fall 2010 .
you may start enhancing your websites for Google TV now . They ’re bring Android Market , Google telly SDK and TV World Wide Web genus Apis in Early 2011 . And open source the code in Summer 2011 .
And here ’s Eric Schmidt , CEO of Google . Also , CEOs of Intel , Sony , Logitech , Dish , Best Buy and Adobe .
Sony CEO : “ When you baffle Apple , you eclipse . raw definition . ”
Logitech says they ’re send a remote with a keyboard built into it in Fall 2010 . “ So if you ’re one of the 60 million HDTV household you are a target for this merchandise . ”
Note : The Best Buy CEO calls his galley slave “ depressed shirts . ”
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