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Sony HDTVs To Come With Google TV Interface

Posted by samzenpus on from the TV-team-up dept.

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."

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  1. Terrible summary. by Facegarden · · Score: 4, Informative

    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

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  2. No, Google did not announce it's own Google TV by cmiller173 · · Score: 4, Informative

    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

  3. Summary is bizarrely wrong by DragonWriter · · Score: 4, Informative

    Even though Google recently announced its own Google TV, seems like their partnership with Sony is going to make it obsolete

    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.

    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.

    Which is exactly what Google said when they announced GoogleTV.

  4. Re:Reasons this Will Fail: firmware updates by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    It IS sony, so we can expect firmware updates which remove features rather than add them.

  5. Reasons parent comment fails by DragonWriter · · Score: 3, Informative

    No one cares about the current and planned IPTV offerings.

    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.

    Cable/satellite companies will never let them mature into anything worthwhile.

    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.

    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.

  6. Re:Great. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    This isn't limited to Sony. Virtually all Blu-ray/TV manufacturers artificially limit updates and open access to their devices. In fact, Sony is one of the better ones in this area (for their higher-end products). If you purchased a Netflix/YouTube/Pandora/Hulu-capable Blu-ray player 5 months ago, it probably hasn't received substantial updates since, with the newer software features only appearing in later product versions... even though earlier versions have the same hardware.