Google TV Demo Wows A Huge Crowd At Google I/O 2010

Google TV was shown at the Google I/O 2010 conference on Thursday. The Google TV demo at Google I/O shows that the technology combines Android and Google Chrome to merge the web and television into a seamless experience. The most remarkable feature of Google TV is that it allows users to find programs with a search bar instead of scrolling through channel directories. Google TV also allows an Android-based phone to be used a remote, complete with spoken commands.

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The TV demo by Google

Google TV’s Android capabilities can be built into Sony HDTVs and Blu-ray players. A set-top Google TV device that can be hooked into existing TVs could be sold by Logitech. Washington Post explains that Google TV Android replaces the cable or satellite providers program guide with a search engine that indexes the total channel inventory and relevant web content for each channel. People can be running out for same day loans to purchase Google TV devices when they hear that a search typed in with either a remote or spoken into an Android phone will replace the grid used now. Google TV search on Android also provides a whole bunch of different web options – if you will find no scheduled airings of a show, users can switch to Google Chrome for streaming episodes available on Amazon or Hulu. Users can watch a show in one corne! r and use the rest of the screen to browse the web. Google TV can also schedule a recording on a separate DVR.

According to Google, “video should be consumed on the biggest, best and brightest screen in your house, and that’s the TV.”

TV devices by Google

Google TV partners consist of Sony, which will launch Sony Internet TVs and Blu-ray players with Google TV within the fall, engadget.com reports . Logitech could be introducing also a set-top Google TV device with Harmony remote and an HD camera for video chats. A Google TV box will also be launched by Dish Network. In retail store, Best Purchase will promote the Google TV platform. Google TV has a potential U.S. customer base of 60 million HDTV households in a $70 billion advertising market. The engadget.com article reports a total of 4 billion TV viewers worldwide — the biggest market in the world.

Google TV developers called by Google I/O

Google called on developers to start prepping Google TV ready apps. PC World reports that Sony and Logitech Google TV devices will be powered by an Intel Atom processor. You will find three main software components to Google TV. Although it will eventually be upgraded over the air, the service will run Android 2.1. The browser is Chrome and Google TV will include Flash 10.1. The mobile version of Android Market will work on Google TV. Apps at the moment within the market should work on Google TV if they don’t require phone-specific hardware.

Citations

Washington Post

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2010/05/google_tv_some_web_smarts_for.html

engadget.com reports

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/google-tv-turns-on-at-i-o/

PC World reports

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2364007,00.asp