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Samsung announces HomeSync, dual-core Android-powered TV box

Samsung announces HomeSync, dual-core Android-powered TV box
  • Posted February 25, 2013, 5:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • Samsung introduced a new Android-powered set-top box during Mobile World Congress this week. It’s an unlikely event to showcase a television box but that didn’t stop the Korean electronics giant from unveiling the HomeSync box.

Asus announces Qube streaming Internet box, powered by Google TV

Asus announces Qube streaming Internet box, powered by Google TV
  • Posted January 8, 2013, 9:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Media consumption has been a big trend heading into the 2013 CES. Asus appears to be the next in line as they have unveiled a new streaming Internet box known as the Qube, powered by Google TV software. The question…

Intel is planning to unveil a set-top box and TV service at CES

Intel is planning to unveil a set-top box and TV service at CES
  • Posted January 2, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Intel is reportedly set to unveil a set-top box as well as a cloud-based television service at the Consumer Electronics Show later this month in Las Vegas. The initial plan is to roll the service out on a city by…

Google TV update adds voice search, PrimeTime guide

Google TV update adds voice search, PrimeTime guide
  • Posted November 14, 2012, 11:34 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, Industry News With Video
  • Unfazed by the lukewarm reception its Google TV platform has seen so far, the search giant is moving ahead with its efforts to blend Internet entertainment with traditional television programming and conquer people’s living rooms. Today, the company announced a…

WOF: Do you use a dedicated media streaming box?

WOF: Do you use a dedicated media streaming box?
  • Posted August 31, 2012, 6:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in WOF
  • Nowadays there are more ways than ever to get online video on your TV, with a streaming media box war brewing between companies such as Apple, Boxee, Roku, Western Digital, a handful of Google TV partners. Each of them has…

Google partners with Hisense for second-gen Google TV set-top box

Google partners with Hisense for second-gen Google TV set-top box
  • Posted August 29, 2012, 10:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • Google’s effort to blend Internet entertainment with traditional television programming came to fruition nearly two years ago although first generation devices like the Logitech Revue weren’t a hit with consumers for a number of reasons. The search giant isn’t ready…

Vizio's Google TV media streamer available next month for $100, OnLive service built-in

Vizio
  • Posted June 26, 2012, 3:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • First teased during CES 2012 in January, Vizio has announced that its Google TV powered Co-Star stream player will begin selling in July for $99.99. That’s half of what Sony is charging for the NSZ-GS7 set-top box we covered yesterday,…

Sony launches Google TV powered set-top box, fails to impress

Sony launches Google TV powered set-top box, fails to impress
  • Posted June 25, 2012, 11:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, Software
  • First unveiled at CES 2012, Sony has now officially announced the NSZ-GS7, the company’s first ever Google TV powered set-top box. For Google TV in general this is an important launch after experiencing a rocky first year, to put it…

LG to launch first Google TV products in May

LG to launch first Google TV products in May
  • Posted May 7, 2012, 10:32 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • LG Electronics, the world's second-largest TV maker, first announced plans to join the Google TV fray at CES 2012 in January, despite the lukewarm reception the platform received from customers. Well, it appears those plans are about to come to…

Google TV coming to Europe in September

Google TV coming to Europe in September
  • Posted April 3, 2012, 2:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • Google TV will be launching in Europe and other parts of the world in September. Sony will manufacture and sell two different Google TV-based consumer products, according to a report by Les Echos via GigaOM.

OnLive readies game streaming app for Google TV devices

OnLive readies game streaming app for Google TV devices
  • Posted January 11, 2012, 3:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Gaming, The Web
  • Video game streaming service OnLive is adding yet another option for users to access their service. In a post just published to the Google TV blog, OnLive CEO Steve Perlman said that they've been working closely with Google to bring console-class…

Vizio unveils Google TV-powered, $100 1080p Stream Player‎

Vizio unveils Google TV-powered, $100 1080p Stream Player‎
  • Posted January 11, 2012, 10:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News
  • We’ve already seen Google TV offerings from Sony and LG, an alternative Android 4.0 ICS powered 55-inch IPS TV set from Lenovo, and now Vizio is getting in the act with a $100 streaming box of their own at the…

Sony keeps Google TV candle burning, shows off two new models

Sony keeps Google TV candle burning, shows off two new models
  • Posted January 10, 2012, 10:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News
  • Sony has been a supporter of Google TV since its inception. Despite the platform's very limited success so far, the Japanese electronics firm is taking another swing at CES with two new Google TV powered devices announced at the show. The…

Roku announces thumb-sized set-top 'Streaming Stick'

Roku announces thumb-sized set-top
  • Posted January 4, 2012, 5:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware
  • Roku is celebrating the new year by unveiling miniature set-top solution. Dubbed the "Roku Streaming Stick," it's approximately the same size as a USB flash drive but packs most of the functionality you'd find in a standard set-top box, such…

Samsung in talks to launch Google TVs early next year

Samsung in talks to launch Google TVs early next year
  • Posted November 22, 2011, 1:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News
  • Logitech has already fallen out of love with Google TV after its Revue set-top box failed to gain customer traction, but the Internet giant has a much bigger partner lined up to fill in their shoes. According to Reuters, Samsung…

Logitech gives up on Google TV, ditches Revue set-top box

Logitech gives up on Google TV, ditches Revue set-top box
  • Posted November 11, 2011, 11:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • Logitech has announced it will halt production of its Revue set-top box, calling it a "mistake of implementation of a gigantic nature." At an Analyst and Investor Day hosted by Logitech on Wednesday, CEO Guerrino De Luca said the company's…

Google TV 2.0 announced with support for Android apps

Google TV 2.0 announced with support for Android apps
  • Posted October 28, 2011, 2:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web, Software
  • Google TV arrived last fall to lukewarm reviews for its complicated interface and lack of real usefulness. One year later the search giant is making another push to bring the web and television sets together with Google TV 2.0. The…

Google TV set to launch in Europe

Google TV set to launch in Europe
  • Posted August 28, 2011, 12:41 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in The Web, Industry News
  • During his keynote speech at the annual Edinburgh Television Festival last Friday, Google Executive Eric Schmidt announced plans to launch Google's TV service in Europe starting early next year. The original launch in the United States back in October 2010 received rather poor reviews...

Logitech slashes Revue price to $100, focuses on Google TV version 2

Logitech slashes Revue price to $100, focuses on Google TV version 2
  • Posted August 1, 2011, 6:00 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware
  • Logitech has officially slashed the price of the Logitech Revue to $100 on its own website, and retailers have thus closely followed suit. Just three months ago, we noted that Amazon had cut the price of the device from $300…

Google acquires SageTV software, Google TV likely to benefit

Google acquires SageTV software, Google TV likely to benefit
  • Posted June 20, 2011, 12:00 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
  • Google has acquired SageTV, the company behind SageTV Media Center. The commercial digital video recording (DVR) software, which requires that the host PC have a hardware based TV tuner card, is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Details…

Google TV getting Android Market access via Android 3.1 update

Google TV getting Android Market access via Android 3.1 update
  • Posted May 11, 2011, 8:00 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
  • Google officially launched Android 3.1 (codenamed Honeycomb) yesterday. The minor update to Android 3.0 (codenamed Honeycomb) is being made available to various tablets, starting with the first tablet that launched with the tablet-optimized version of Android: the Motorola Xoom. At…

Logitech sees Google TV sales plummet to just $5 million

  • Posted April 29, 2011, 5:54 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
  • Logitech is having a rough time as a Google TV launch partner; the Logitech Revue was released in October 2010 and it's already seeing very poor sales. The company's set-top box and accessories only generated about $5 million in FY…

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