Introducing Google TV

• Vinhthehero wrote on 2010-05-20 19:50
  [video=youtube;diTpeYoqAhc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diTpeYoqAhc[/video]

  
  
  

  Google TV is a new experience for television that combines the TV that you already know with the freedom and power of the Internet. With Google Chrome built in, you can access all of your favorite websites and easily move between television and the web. This opens up your TV from a few hundred channels to millions of channels of entertainment across TV and the web. Your television is also no longer confined to showing just video. With the entire Internet in your living room, your TV becomes more than a TV — it can be a photo slideshow viewer, a gaming console, a music player and much more.
  
  Google TV uses search to give you an easy and fast way to navigate to television channels, websites, apps, shows and movies. For example, already know the channel or program you want to watch? Just type in the name and you’re there. Want to check out that funny YouTube video on your 48” flat screen? It’s just a quick search away. If you know what you want to watch, but you’re not sure where to find it, just type in what you’re looking for and Google TV will help you find it on the web or on one of your many TV channels. If you’d rather browse than search, you can use your standard program guide, your DVR or the Google TV home screen, which provides quick access to all of your favorite entertainment so you’re always within reach of the content you love most.
  
  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’re looking forward to seeing all of the ways developers will use this new platform.

  
  
  Official Google Blog: Announcing Google TV: TV meets web. Web meets TV.
  http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/google-tv-turns-on-at-i-o/
• Laconicus wrote on 2010-05-20 19:58
  I don't really watch tv much... but if something like this was implemented I'd probably watch it a lot more... o.o
  
  Hoping you can watch foreign tv and subbed anime on it.
• Zack wrote on 2010-05-20 20:12
  Ill just stick with my Bell TV PVR. Record ftw.
  
  I also rather just go on my computer to search the web rather then using a remote to type in the letters...
• Cucurbita wrote on 2010-05-20 21:44
  I'd definitely watch TV more like this.
• Kyouriharu wrote on 2010-05-20 21:52
  If it gets my Mythbusters on it, I'm sold.
• Osayidan wrote on 2010-05-20 21:58
  The things they do to facilitate access to pornography.
  Sometimes I think the entirety of technology is based on two things: laziness and improving how efficiently we can obtain porn.
  
  If you think about it, it all makes sense.
  If we weren't lazy we'd all still be living the good life, like the natives.
• Moppy wrote on 2010-05-20 22:03

  Quote from Osayidan;40325:

  The things they do to facilitate access to pornography.
  Sometimes I think the entirety of technology is based on two things: laziness and improving how efficiently we can obtain porn.
  
  If you think about it, it all makes sense.
  If we weren't lazy we'd all still be living the good life, like the natives.

  
  
  I can agree to that.