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GoogleTV, AppleTV and the Battle For The Living Room

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-someone-win-already dept.

An anonymous reader pointed us to an article talking about Google TV and AppleTV challenging the major networks and taking their place in your living room. It'll be a tough battle, amusingly waged on cable company wires in many major markets.

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  1. Lesser evil by guyminuslife · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hmmm. So do I want a locked-down, shiny piece of Jobsified crap, or do I want a television that watches me? [insert pre-emptive "In Soviet Russia..." here]

    Oh, who am I kidding, I want them both.

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    1. Re:Lesser evil by jdgeorge · · Score: 3, Funny

      As for me, I will only interested in one that plays well with my other media components.

      Doh! Not to mention my interest in a device that helps me avoid posting broken grammar in this intellectually rigorous forum.

  2. Re:UI? by Speare · · Score: 4, Funny

    At the demo in Berlin they said there will be both Android and iOS apps for controlling Google TV. They even mentioned voice search integration.

    I can just see it now. I'm watching a Star Trek episode, and Picard gives the shipboard computer a prompt, such as "Computer! Find all Starfleet regulations on personnel transfers." Suddenly my television starts playing a completely different program in my video library. Hopefully not something I put in the "embarrassing" folder.

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