Google unveiled a new platform called Google TV that it says “will change the future of television“. Google is putting its Android software and Chrome Web browser on television and other home entertainment devices in an attempt to succeed where others have struggled: in merging television and the Internet.
Google TV will be available on television sets, Blu-ray players and companion set-top boxes through partnerships with Intel Corp. and Sony Corp. Special “input devices” will include a keyboard and remote-control-type pointing device.
“As other technologies have evolved and changed, TV has remained the same,” Rishi Chandra, the project leader, told 5,000 developers gathered for the conference in San Francisco.
Google is pitching its new platform as an easy way to search for television programming and Internet content without having to navigate slow on-screen directories. Instead users can pull down a search box to find what they are looking for on television and the Web. Search for “House” and you get all the episodes available on USA and Fox as well as on Hulu.com and for purchase on Amazon.com. That way, the TV becomes “a natural extension of the Web itself,” Chandra said.
Watch the overview video below:
For more information visit google.com/tv.
[via nytimes]
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