Showing posts with label TV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV. Show all posts
Google recently launched a new television platform (Google TV) that will replace channel surfing with Google searching. Google TV allows users to search their available television programs and the web at the same time. There are currently three ways to buy Google TV. Sony has come out with an internet TV and an internet Blu-ray player. The third way, and my favorite is The Logitech Revue. The Revue has a full keyboard equipped with a mouse pad.
There are two things that really stick out to me about Google TV and the future of our living rooms. The first is that Google plans to release Google TV as open source software in the near future. In my opinion, this will ultimately lead to more pirating of television shows and movies. The small inconvenience of waiting for ads to play will be altered and removed from TV by computer programmers around the world. The best thing about opening the source code to the public is that itcan utilize the most powerful computer engineering team on the planet. I personally can't code a thing, but I am excited to see more open source software being released. It improves the quality of the program, not only by listening to user feedback, but also letting them take action to resolve their own problems. The second thing is that Google is building an App Store. Until recently the only thing our televisions did was watch the channels you paid for. Now there are televisions that are able to watch youtube, use pandora, and stream netflix. You can also use your android or iphone as a remote control for some of them. These are just the beginning of the apps that will improve our television experience. Soon enough our television and computer will be fully integrated.
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