Announcing Google TV: TV meets web. Web meets TV.

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by Anon84 • 16 years ago

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pragmatic• 16 years ago

Or I can hook a pc to my tv like I did last month. Ta-da.

Seriously, this is a good idea, if executed correctly. I like the pc b/c i can play Bluray, DVD, Youtube and Netflix streaming on the same device. And there's only one device.

If you combined those into once device, that would be cool. Some Bluray players are getting there. However, I like the ability to hack and play. I can install my own codes, etc.

WiseWeasel2• 16 years ago

Seriously, the PS3 is there already, but it's Sony, so obviously they didn't execute the software capabilities. But just the bluray capabilities of the PS3 show me that they are very close despite themselves. The Netflix streaming bluray disc that works on many network-connected bluray players is a perfect example, and a beauty to use. It's a huge hassle to have to actually find and insert a physical disc to use the thing, and it would be several orders of magnitude better if the Netflix streaming bluray java app could be installed to the hard drive, along with a bunch of others, but the capability is nearly perfect. I could see a Youtube bluray disc being pretty popular as well. If bluray players could store those network-streaming based apps locally, it would be game over for FlashTV (aka Open Screen) and GoogleTV. Hell, Google could probably implement the real meat of GoogleTV as a bluray disc.

joezydeco4• 16 years ago

I'm watching the live stream in bits and pieces. What is the "input device", exactly? A wireless mouse? That's gonna be a real pain to use.

tyweir• 16 years ago

They showed controlling the TV with Android phones, in fact with multiple phones.

No more fights for the controller. :)

px• 16 years ago

Just fights among the controllers.

wmeredith• 16 years ago

I'd like to see a mini game and whoever wins gets to control the TV for 10 minutes.

joezydeco4• 16 years ago

So the input controller is a $300 device with a $70/month use fee?

awans• 16 years ago

Seemed like they were using a diNovo EDGE on stage: http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&tbs=isch:1&#...

Saavedro• 16 years ago

Baha! It'll be built INTO the TV.. Or the cable box, or the blu-ray player.

You get your TV home and connect it to your network, and have Hulu (because it has a fully featured browser with flash) working out of the box.

Making your own TV channel is now pretty much as simple as writing an android app.

poppysan• 16 years ago

You raise an interesting point... Google could potentially turn advertising on it's head again if the popularity of these individual networks perk up!!!!

chrisbolt• 16 years ago

I don't understand why Apple hasn't made an App Store and SDK for the Apple TV like with the iPhone/iPad. Maybe then it would be worth buying.

paul9290• 16 years ago

Soon you won't be able to watch Hulu through Chrome, but nevertheless this some exciting and potentially big stuff here. I wonder how the cable and media companies feel about this?

aidenn0• 16 years ago

Did google just kill the boxee box? What about boxee in general?

@boxee says: watched the Google TV demo. more complementary than competitive. we should start working on Boxee Android App for TV... :)

michaelcampbell• 16 years ago

And really, what else could they say? "Oh no, they just killed us! SNAP!" Anything said by a corporation (or a manager (boom!)) is so "spun" these days it's hardly worth listening to.

Perhaps, however, I am wrong.

WiseWeasel2• 16 years ago

Well, you can always hold out hope that they'll pull an Adobe, and tell people that the other guy is a big, fat meanie, and then have popcorn ready for the ensuing epic flame war.

jganetsk• 16 years ago

And then there's @zachklein, their chief product officer:

"Google TV, yawn. The most interesting bit from their presentation today was the hint of a cloud-based music service."

patrickk• 16 years ago

I hope XBMC gets support for Google TV. Rather than just watching your media collection, being also to watch web TV would be an amazing bonus.

For those who are unfamiliar, XBMC is a media player with one of the best UIs I've seen on any application, anywhere, ever. Seriously, it looks gorgeous, particularly the "Aeon" skin with custom backdrops. XBMC isn't just a pretty face though, it also handles pretty much any media format you can throw at it (like VLC). And it's FREE. If you have a HTPC it's the media player of choice. It even has an iPhone app that allows you control XBMC over WiFi.

Great XBMC Article:

http://lifehacker.com/5536963/the-ultimate-start-to-finish-g...

Aeon Skin for XBMC:

http://www.aeonproject.com/

schoudha• 16 years ago

Nice, my first credit on hacker news :)

mey• 16 years ago

You mention TV Web and Web TV, but not WebTV.

http://www.webtv.com/

Other systems, Boxee, MythTV, Microsoft Media Server, Apple TV

derefr• 16 years ago

I'm just going to leave this here: http://derefr.co.cc/essays/why-television

People don't (only) watch TV because it's a big screen with big speakers attached to it, placed centrally in their houses. There's also a bit of a sociological element going on, which this doesn't replicate.

Announcing Google TV: TV meets web. Web meets TV.

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