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Sony HDTVs To Come With Google TV Interface
adeelarshad82 writes "Even though Google recently announced its own Google TV, seems like their partnership with Sony is going to make it obsolete. Google has partnered up with Sony to launch four HDTVs loaded with the Google TV interface, as well as a Google TV Blu-ray player. The company's Google TV products will be called Sony Internet TV. With the Google TV, Sony aims to provide a clean and easy way to browse the Web, watch TV, and run applications all on your HDTV. Google TV uses the true Chrome Web browser with Flash 10.1. Unfortunately though, at the moment it only has a handful of apps available but Sony said the OS will be updated in early 2011 to include the Android Market app with more options."
No one cares about the current and planned IPTV offerings.
Cable/satellite companies will never let them mature into anything worthwhile.
Sony.
Reasons Slashdot will shit on this:
Flash.
i predict google TV will be integrated into most TV's in the next 3-5 years which means every TV will soon ship with Flash
no need to fire up the computer for the porn tube sites
Paraphrasing since copy-paste isn't working (did slashdot do that on purpose or is my computer on crack?)
"Even though google annouced their own google tv... their partnership with sony will make it obsolete..."
Anyway.. whaaaa? Did the person writing this even read about Google TV? Google didn't announce a TV... the announced a software platform called Google TV, which sony is using. So the partnership isn't going to make it obsolete... it's USING Google TV!
Such a terrible summary its actually weird. Also, nice random semicolon.
-Taylor
Worldwide Military budgets: $2100 billion. Worldwide Space Exploration budgets: $38 billion. Really, world? Really?
Google did not announce it's own Google TV, Google announced Google TV products from partners Sony and Logitech. Which is what they were saying all along. May: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/05/20/198242/Google-TV-Announced-With-Intel-Sony-and-Logitech
Bundle everything in the TV, so I have to pay ridiculous sums of money to upgrade just one component. For bonus points, don't deliver firmware updates, or deliver ones that break current features, or ship with limited features and never update, so that I have to buy your product again in 1-2 years -- like Hulu support in 2011. Bastards.
I think if all TVs had this it would be great. Built in surfing capabilities with WiFi? Who wouldn't want that, and what reason could you argue not to have it?
If it becomes a standard feature, then you could just buy a TV (with it) and not even use it if you don't want it. The only downside is devices like AppleTV will become obsolete. Well, "down side".
Wrong.
What Google announced was the GoogleTV platform. In the Google announcement, they announced a series of hardware manufacturer partners that would be developing devices incorporating the platform on TVs, Blu-Ray players, and standalone settop boxes. Sony was one of those.
Now Sony has announced some of the specific initial products that it will be making that incorporate the GoogleTV platform.
Which is exactly what Google said when they announced GoogleTV.
All I want to know is if my new Sony TV will come with a free root kit pre-installed at the factory?
Insisting on "correct" English is like saying that there is only one, definitive recipe for chili.
It IS sony, so we can expect firmware updates which remove features rather than add them.
I wonder if there'll be some lawsuit about unfairly bundling the service with the TV, which caused the cable/satellite TV industry to shrivel at long last?
"People don't want to learn linux" hasn't been a valid excuse since '03.
...on a TV? Four?
Can we get a "-1 Wrong" moderation option?
This isn't an IPTV offering. Its simply a Web + TV offering. It does incorporate access to existing Web video sources, but primarily the TV (content) part comes from whatever normal TV signal source you have.
Which is probably why GoogleTV is designed primarily (for now) to bring existing Web content to your TV screen and enhance rather than replace traditional cable/satellite (or, AFAIK, broadcast) TV.
Sony hasn't really been all that bad at selling TVs and other media products, so as much as some people may be upset about some things Sony has done in the past, I don't think that's a reason that the product will fail.
All I want to know is if my new Sony TV will come with a free root kit pre-installed at the factory?
TV, Sony or not, is already a rootkit to your mind.
Set your phasers on "funky"!
Now even my TV can get infected with malware.
So much for XMB. Unless, of course, this is part of a plan of pushing out PSP phones running on Android.
Is this going to include the new patent that allows me the consumer to PAY to skip commercials? Will Sony figure out a way to keep DVR's from skipping commercials so the GOOG gets its cut? If so this should be tagged DoNotWant!
And how long will it be until Sony decides to start removing features from this TV, because of alleged concerns about piracy, hacking, moping with intent to creep, or whatever other excuse they come up with?
"Sorry, we have removed the web browser's ability to visit any site with a vowel in the URL, because some people were visiting sites about how to use their TV to view unapproved content."
Sorry Sony, you burned me on my PS3, you shall not do so again.
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I already have a computer. #tuckermaxfail
Between Sony's adopted mantra of "Do all evil possible" and Google's of "Do no evil", when they get together that must become "Do nothing".
The PS3? The last straw for me was in 2000 (2001?) when I bought a wildly overpriced network walkman NW-MS9 "MP3" player that wouldn't play MP3s - http://reviews.cnet.com/mp3-players/sony-nw-ms9-network/1707-6490_7-6148779.html
Awesome hardware completely crippled for the sake of ensuring no possible way to share a song with it.
Sony: just say no.
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Nielsen TV ratings.
I get the impression from the synopsis that the author doesn't know that Google TV and Sony Ineternet TV are the same thing? I'm not sure how Google TV is going to make Google TV obsolete, but it's sure a head scratcher.
that being said, this is a horrid idea that has been tried time and time again. Nobody wants an expensive all-in-one device when individual components are typically less expensive and give better results over time. This Sony TV will be fine, until the first Google TV software update that it can't support, then it's a TV with a dead component inside. Kind of like one of those people who have a dead fetus twin inside them their whole lives until they have a cyst removed that turns out to have hair and a face.
Is THAT what you want in your TV? Is it?
Awesome, yet another device that unsuspecting consumers can get infected with viruses and make our botnet problem even worse. How long before you can buy your favorite flavor of AV product for your telly?
Jobs will follow with his release of iGoogleTV (err... ooops... I mean, iTV), without flash
"Without Flash" has been used as a code word for "with technologies under the HTML5 banner", including the <video> element.
and with tight control over access to porn.
If iOS for Apple TV gets an update to add a Safari browser comparable to the one on iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad, and this Safari has H.264 streaming <video>, how do you expect Mr. Jobs to control what <video> users watch?
there's a lot of partnering going on in the TV world right now. what I'm most excited about is plex and LG. http://elan.plexapp.com/2010/09/02/plex-and-the-future-of-television/
plex is great on my mac already. I was going to get a mac mini to serve content to my tv but maybe I'll just wait. I'd also consider getting apple TV if plex worked on airplay.
Anybody else starting to be a little freaked out about how ubiquitous Google is becoming? I thought phones were cool, but this is starting to scare me. Especially considering the amount of data they collect on us.
The last straw for me was in 2000 (2001?) when I bought a wildly overpriced network walkman NW-MS9 "MP3" player that wouldn't play MP3s
Why would you do that? Everybody knew those things were shitty. The PS3, on the other hand, is a decent product. With your track record, you probably shouldn't be giving product advice, or even trusting your own instincts.
Sony makes some great products and some incredibly shitty ones. Making blanket judgements based on brand alone, rather than the merits of individual products, is pretty unintelligent.
... and then they built the supercollider.
I'm just waiting for a TV to come with a fully functional, unrestricted and networkable PC built in that uses standard parts and interfaces and is linked to one of the TV inputs.
The internet, and by 'internet' I mean the whole interactive social experience, is going (or has gone) mobile. What people want is another way to get TV stuff from the internet to their HD TVs for a better viewing experience, not more computer stuff on their TVs. Apple has it right. Besides, who wants tech that has a life cycle of, maybe, 6 months in a TV with a life cycle of (at least) 5 years?
the TV Programs YOU !
You know, if you had done any research on the thing before buying it, you would have discovered that it played MP3's by having SonicStage convert them to ATRAC.
Did you even have Linux on your PS3? If even 1/10th of the people who complain about SCEfoo removing Linux support had actually used it, the YDL forums would have been far far more busy. Besides, if you want to keep Linux, you can, you're just shut out of PSN.
Sony said the OS will be updated in early 2011 to ...remove consumer friendly functionality.
I can't wait till my TV gets compromised with a bot client or pop-ups.
Wow, guess I struck a nerve with the Sony Fanboys. Sure, I could research and find out if a particular Sony product does something underhanded and unexpected, and should have researched the walkman, but I had been really happy with my previous sony products, and had no reason to suspect that if the box SAID it was an MP3 player that they'd be lying. After the ensuing years of proprietary hardware, root-kits, and support for the RIAA, I don't care if they DO happen to puke out a decent product, I know part of the proceeds from it go to screwing people, and that just doesn't sit right with me, and I encourage others to spend their dollars more wisely whenever I get the chance.
All of the apps on any TVs I have personally used have been sluggish and slow to respond. Hooking a computer/media center/game console up to the TV and using apps hosted on those devices has always resulted in a much more pleasant experience for me and my friends. I doubt the introduction to Google apps on TVs will make an impact on anything.
Will they be releasing a version for the PS3? Anything would be an improvement over the PS3s craptacular browser.
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apps for your phone...
apps for your mp3 player...
apps for your tablet...
apps for your ereader...
apps for your video game console...
now apps for your friggin' tv...
i'm sick of apps.
A million years ago, my friend and I both received stereo systems from our parents. Each system was from the same store and both made by the same company; his was an integrated system while mine was comprised of separate components. His single box of parts started failing within two years. My receiver lasted thirty years. The takeaway: the display should be just and only that; add functionality with stand-alone (second-generation) components.
Actually, yes, I did have Linux on my PS3. I had it to experiment with the CBE as a signal processing engine, since that's what I do for a living.
And not only am I shut out of PSN, I am shut out of any recent games, any new hardware such as Move, potentially out of new Blu-Ray disks, etc. - which I do because all work and no fun makes Wowbagger a dull boy.
So yes, I DID lose (sorry, loose - I don't want to make you feel uncomfortable) something when Sony took away a feature that they had advertised, that was a part of our sales contract, and that was a part of why I did business with them.
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Sounds interesting, I'm guessing the SPE's were pretty good at it.
I had Linux on mine as well, though I'm not a programmer. And yes, I miss having Linux on it, it added more functionality to what was already a device with a lot of functionality. And it let the household get away with only 1 "traditional" x86 PC, since I didn't need to use the PC to do things like read my e-mail or read Slashdot. I was annoyed that SCEfoo decided to remove otherOS, but more annoyed at Geohot. He knew how crazy paranoid Sony's content creating divisions are about pirated content and he knew how shizophrenic Sony can be as a company with all it's varying divisions with their own agendas, he should have kept his mouth shut. Before firmware 3.21 hit, I contacted SCEA by phone and e-mail and begged them to reconsider.
I held off on updating my PS3 as long as I could, but I missed PSN, so I got a cheap x86 box on Fry's to replace OtherOS and updated.
I never saw any advertisements for OtherOS, it got mentioned on Slashdot and other geek websites, but I never saw it mentioned in the mainstream press. And while Linux was one of the reasons I got a PS3, it was more of a bonus to the Blu-Ray playing, game playing and all the other things the PS3 does. I'm actually more annoyed that SCEfoo doesn't make CECHA's anymore, I had to settle for a CECHE, sure wasn't going to get a slim. That's another thing, there's plenty of people on Slashdot who complain about what the 3.21 firmware did, but far fewer complained about the Slim's inability to use OtherOS, though they did complain a bit about the Slim's lack of PS2 compatibility, probably because one of the biggest complaints about the PS3 was the price.
Meh... I just bought another one, so now I have one which I can run Linux on in my bedroom, and one up to date in my living room...
This is blinging