Google TV is coming to your living room.

[JMH]

Google is working with Intel, Sony and other partners to develop Google TV, a service aimed at putting the Internet search giant's Web offerings in people's living rooms, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

Google TV will combine the company's Android mobile operating system and applications with television devices made for the OS, including set-top boxes, the paper says.

The TV technology will run on Intel's Atom chips, the report says, and Google will develop a new version of its Chrome browser for the TV project.

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Report: Google TV is coming to your living room

 

[Night Hawk]

Google trying to outpace the MS Monopoly? Someone mutters: "don't be surprized if MS and Google don't team up.".

Some mention of Google also becoming another ISP? ut oooh....

 

[CarlTR6]

I don't trust Google enough to use them as my ISP.

 

[Night Hawk]

I wouldn't want Google to start with! I tend to use one of several other search engines even. But they are trying to poke into everything MS already has going it seems and eventually may even get into automotive softwares!

(good grief! A google navigator in your new mini van or suv? :roflmao

 

[smarteyeball]

Report: Google TV is coming to your living room

Not in my living room it's not.



Google is getting far too big for it's boots.



At this rate Google = Skynet....

 

[darkdisturbed]

What the? Well what happened to them just being a friendly search enginge that they started with? Seems to me they are victims of their own success , wanting more and more, until eventually they've conquered the world.

Google turning into Microsoft maybe?

Skynet.. haha good one smarteyeball, probably they'll be working on google planes and google robots enxt.. lol

 

[Night Hawk]

In retrospect, "yes, now you can keep the rear passengers in your mini van entertained with the new Google tv displays... watch Google on the road!" Instead of MSN channels you now have "watch the Google channel!"

"hey Joe did you see that new Google mobile phone with a live tv feed?" "introducing the new Google voice activated dish washer!" and who knows what else.

 

[cloud8521]

in truth i like their idea for internet ! gigabit internet?! where the hell do i sign my soul for that ...... i hope it has no caps.... and will come to canada.... but tv? i do not think Google is wet enough in the business.

 

[Night Hawk]

They would be totally out of their league there to start with! I couldn't see anyone staying awake watching: "now here's how to type in a search term in the new Google revised search ...."

 

[cloud8521]

They would be totally out of their league there to start with! I couldn't see anyone staying awake watching: "now here's how to type in a search term in the new Google revised search ...."

im thinking it may go more along this line

"Today on the Google network we will be Googleing the word '****'"

and to find a show you must google the channel

 

[whs]

I hope there will be no commercials on it - else I will not watch that either.

 

[Night Hawk]

Either way it becomes a very sad case of "Google litis"!

They already have been running the Android phone ads until the airwaves are saturated for that. Now they want their own channel for nothing but "Google"! 'order now and we'll include this free Google T=shirt for no extra charge...." :huh:

"wake me up when it's over!" will prove to be the actual household word you end up hearing!

 

[smarteyeball]

I hope there will be no commercials on it - else I will not watch that either.

No commercials + Google? = Not a chance.

 

[whs]

I hope there will be no commercials on it - else I will not watch that either.

No commercials + Google? = Not a chance.

I am afraid you are right. I only watch TV in Europe where I have plenty of public channels without commercials. But in the US, I have not watched TV in years.

 

[cloud8521]

Either way it becomes a very sad case of "Google litis"!

They already have been running the Android phone ads until the airwaves are saturated for that. Now they want their own channel for nothing but "Google"! 'order now and we'll include this free Google T=shirt for no extra charge...." :huh:

"wake me up when it's over!" will prove to be the actual household word you end up hearing!

T-shit WOW I WANT ONE SO I MAY LOOK LIKE A TOOL

 

[Night Hawk]

Either way it becomes a very sad case of "Google litis"!

They already have been running the Android phone ads until the airwaves are saturated for that. Now they want their own channel for nothing but "Google"! 'order now and we'll include this free Google T=shirt for no extra charge...." :huh:

"wake me up when it's over!" will prove to be the actual household word you end up hearing!

T-shit WOW I WANT ONE SO I MAY LOOK LIKE A TOOL

When I see the ads I'll pass that info along to you! Are you sure now? :roflmao:

 

[cloud8521]

Either way it becomes a very sad case of "Google litis"!

They already have been running the Android phone ads until the airwaves are saturated for that. Now they want their own channel for nothing but "Google"! 'order now and we'll include this free Google T=shirt for no extra charge...." :huh:

"wake me up when it's over!" will prove to be the actual household word you end up hearing!

T-shit WOW I WANT ONE SO I MAY LOOK LIKE A TOOL

When I see the ads I'll pass that info along to you! Are you sure now? :roflmao:

depends, does it have adwords built into it? i want to be a great big tool
also i want to be able to do searches on my shirt, so i can be an actual tool too

 

[FuturDreamz]

shouldn't google tv be more like the Yahoo! gadgets that are built into some tvs and Blu-Ray players, with at-a glance weather and news headlines?

 

[Night Hawk]

"introducing the new Google weather channel!" "please watch as Google news + weather scroll by on your screen with the new Google info chip on your Google brand tv!" :roflmao:

"WiFi web tv brought to you by Google!" "run web searches on your new Google wrist watch in case your Google T-shirt is tied up at the dry cleaners!" Can't wash a search engine T-shirt in your washing machine due to getting wet!

By the time they get done everyone will probably be "Googled out"!

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there
"Resistance is Futile ..... You Will be absorbed " ......

Actually TV these days is becoming such a Low Brow medium totally riddled with useless commercials that I find myself watching it less and less -- and apart from Sports and the ocasional News program the only decent drama and series one gets were made around 20 - 30 years ago and appear on obscure Satellite channels.

Modern stuff to me seems just JUNK - Endless reality stuff showing things like how NOT to cook, how boring people behave when standing in line in Airports or so called "comedy" programs which are probably the best cure for insomnia since Humans first learned how to speak.

Studios have so cut down their budgets these days in pursuit of "the almighty dollar" that the whole idea of quality has long since gone out of the window.

Very rarely you can still find some gems of quality such as offered by PBS in the US on such stations as as WGBH in Boston or some BBC programs which can still tease the brain a little -- but on the whole I really wouldn't miss TV if it stopped broadcasting tommorrow.


Cheers
jimbo