Video Impressions Of Google TV On Logitech Revue Hardware
Posted: September 4th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Gadgets | Tags: Google, hardware, impressions, Logitech, Revue, Video | 8 Comments »
It seems that one of the beta testers for Google TV couldn’t keep all that goodness to himself, and has posted several pictures and some video of the near-finished interface and hardware. It’s a brief and not particularly shocking video, but seeing it running on a home TV and hearing a regular guy expressing legitimate (if subdued) excitement make it a lot more real. Sorry about the ad before the content, by the way, but you should probably get used to it.
The interface looks more or less the same as when it was introduced: nested menu items starting on the left, search bar able to be evoked at any time. There are a few minor visual differences, for instance the bookmarks layout and thumbnails have been tweaked. Interestingly, “Applications” is listed twice.
The “What’s On TV” category looks handy; apparently it works as long as your cable or satellite provider has some category metadata, which is most if not all of them. I also note an Amazon menu item, which means you’ll be able to get those 99c TV downloads we heard about almost immediately after the Apple TV announcement. I pictured a world without two data pipes coming into your house, but I’m not sure that’s going to happen just yet. This is too effective a way to watch regular TV.
Navigation is effected with the keyboard pictured above, which has a built-in trackpad and d-pad, or via any Harmony controller, including the Harmony Connect app.
The Logitech hardware looks solid; I like the two USB ports plus HDMI in. That means sharing what you’ve got around the house, be it on your camcorder or a five-year-old USB drive.
Unfortunately our narrator did not demonstrate anything as far as searching or navigating recorded shows, or talk about the experience of having shows backed up to the cloud. Let’s hope for a sequel. I have to say, it’s looking pretty nice. I doubt it will cost as little as the Apple TV, but I wouldn’t put it beyond Google to work something out by which it is very competitive. After all, it stands to make a lot of money off owning your TV as well as your browser, your email, your phone, and… you know, your everything.
[via Engadget]
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Yep – U G L Y — My mom will never buy/use this – Neither will most of the “normal” people I know. It’s a geek toy, that’s all Google knows how to produce
Yeah, no Apple logo on it so it must be crap. The AppleTV is clearly superior with it’s ability to watch Netflix.
This is the future yall. Adios Comcast! Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!
Looks ugly to me too. Too complicated for the average user.
This is going to be huge. That you can record directly to Google’s cloud is a massive feature in itself, let alone all the other stuff they’ve already formally announced.
This looks pretty awesome! No doubt it completely blows apple TV out of the water, and I was even pretty excited about apple TV. Seeing pandora and amazon up there though and know it can control so much more as far as what’s current on TV really sells it for me.
please tell me you work for apple, or are just a complete ignorant fool. Do you realize what this can do, suggest shows and movies, has applications, a full web browser, the ability to get tv shows and movies from netflix/amazon and whoever else. Could storage and so much more, ,podcasts(audio/video). Ease of search for anything on the TV and internet.
This has SOOO much potential too, just wait until it gets the market early 2011, its gonna be insanneeee
looks terrible actually