Maneuvers around promised betrothal between television and computer. The preparation of the festival began and the guests arrive. Between the two, the apple has been bitten, thanks to Apple and its Apple TV. After the flop of the first version, launched in 2006, the new version, out recently to raise the matter with a size and a smaller price.
Other contenders are preparing today to land and try to do better than this box from Apple that is happy to tap into a closed catalog using the iTunes software. Google announced its Google TV application, which itself is supposed to open the Internet world in the TV family.
The company has taken a step further by opening the site Google TV where you can discover the functions promised: visit web sites using the Chrome browser, watch videos on YouTube, search for information through search engine or visit his Facebook page.
A decoder Logitech
Twitter has in turn announced a special version of its software for micro-blogging to adapt to these TVs «googled». You can even ... watch TV channels carried by waves or those disseminated through agreements with Google. For remote control, you can choose ... for his own phone if it's an iPhone or a model using the Android operating system.
Equipment manufacturers are also in the game. This Wednesday, October 6, 2010, Logitech should provide a decoder, called Review, which will run all these TV software Google Android, making them accessible on a standard TV.
For its part, Sony promises models incorporating Google TV and Samsung is preparing to do the same soon. These trips begin in the U.S. this fall and run throughout the world in 2011. Furthermore, Google promises a development kit early next year that will allow independent companies to create new applications.
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