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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.
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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.