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."

Comments

Re:Reasons this Will Fail:

[Facegarden]

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.

Its not so much IPTV like AT&T U-Verse, that requires everyone to agree on how it works, its just web TV, like Hulu. I already use Hulu as my main source of TV, and don't have cable, just internet, with a media center hooked up to the TV.

Plenty of people would do that too if it were built into to their TV already.

Re:Terrible summary.

[Lunix Nutcase]

Such a terrible summary its actually weird.

One word: sampenzus.

Re:Good idea

[OldeTimeGeek]

Who wouldn't want that, and what reason could you argue not to have it?

Because the components will become outdated long before the TV portion does and the only way to update will be to replace the entire thing. Or do you actually think it will be based on an open architecture that will allow replacement of components and still remain in warranty? Sorry, not for me.

Wrong question.

[srussia]

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.

Re:Reasons parent comment fails

[DragonWriter]

Web + TV, you say?
Why, I could make billions if it was 1994

Yes, nothing that has ever been, in generally similar terms, tried once and failed has ever been commercialized successfully later after technology has advanced and details of the approach were changed.

For instance, Apple isn't currently doing a brisk business in selling tablet computers despite the weak success of previous attempts of other companies to do that.

Re:Reasons parent comment fails

[91degrees]

Things have changed a little since 1994. Mainly that we have streaming video. It's an application that actually makes sense for a television.

Re:How long until Sony starts subtracting features

[wowbagger]

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.