Combine everything you love about your TV and the Web. Many companies have been trying to accomplish this, but have never succeeded. Well, Google does have the manpower and of course the money to pull this off.
Hey, this is great! I would love to stop paying for horrible cable and satellite TV. Nothing is ever on and every channel I think I’m interested of course says “for ordering information, please call…”. Arggg!
Seems to me that all that is needed is Internet access and the rest would be history. Hmmm. with the Google Internet project, maybe we will all have free high speed Internet too!
Check out Google’s video about Google TV
Here’s some of what Google is saying about it – plus some of the folks they are teaming up with:
Because Google TV is built on open platforms like Android and Google Chrome, these features are just a fraction of what Google TV can do. In our announcement today at Google I/O, we challenged web developers to start coming up with the next great web and Android apps designed specifically for the TV experience. Developers can start optimizing their websites for Google TV today. Soon after launch, we’ll release the Google TV SDK and web APIs for TV so that developers can build even richer applications and distribute them through Android Market. We’ve already started building strategic alliances with a number of companies — like Jinni.com and Rovi — at the leading edge of innovation in TV technology. Jinni.com is a next-generation TV application working to provide semantic search, personalized recommendation and social features for Google TV across all sources of premium content available to the user. Rovi is one of the world’s leading guide applications. We’re looking forward to seeing all of the ways developers will use this new platform.
We’re working together with Sony and Logitech to put Google TV inside of televisions, Blu-ray players and companion boxes. These devices will go on sale this fall, and will be available at Best Buy stores nationwide. You can sign up here to get updates on Google TV availability.
This is so exciting!
~Web Traveler