Google’supcoming set top boxhas great pedigree : It ’s Android - based OS , Sony and Intel are make the gut and design and Logitech doing what Logitech does best ( stimulant devices ) . So please , please , please do n’t screw this up .
https://gizmodo.com/a-google-tv-set-top-box-is-coming-5495856
Right now we bonk very little . We bang it ’s Android - based and will have the Chrome vane browser app . We do n’t whether it ’s snuff it to be the full Chrome web browser , the Webkit - base mobile web browser on Android or some loan-blend of the two . Roku ’s CEO understandably tried to pump up the likely Leontyne Price of a Google TV , sound out that it would be $ 200 + if it were entirely web browser - found , like ChromeOS , compared to the $ 80 of his own auto . But hey , could n’t this thing be less with Intel and Sony ’s scale of manufacture , and ads subsiding the intact matter ?
So we ’re forget filling in the jam ourselves . Here ’s what we need .
The Googly features
For it to be a Google fix top box seat as people reckon it , it really involve to have access to Google ’s resource . That ’s the reason why a heavy gmail and gcal users would get an Android phone versus any other phone .
• Really proficient YouTube support : Many devices support YouTube , like TiVo or Boxee or the PS3 ( via the web browser app ) , but none are really as good as follow something on your computer , believe it or not . It ’s mostly down to the input machine . If Logitech can make a remote / keyboard that has all the right buttons and shortcut for YouTube , this ’ll be a winner . And of course , you ’d be able-bodied to buy / rent Youtube hosted hollywood movies through the gimmick .
• Gmail , Gchat ( including voice and video , so this requires USB webcam backup ) , Gmaps , Gdocs , Picasa , GReader and all the other bear apps on Android . This theoretically should n’t be a problem , since there will be some kind of Chrome web browser on board . It ’s just a thing of making a comfortable 10 foot interface ( and keyboard , if you ’re break to be typing ) so it ’s not just WebTV 2010 . This is a worrying point , since Google ’s always done datum driven design analysis , which has turn out useful , but not very slick , port .
• Android apps : Google has limited memory access to their Android Marketplace for devices that take to the woods Android ( tablets , theNook ) but are n’t in reality Android phones . Lessen the restriction so we can get some of the30,000Android apps onto the program and this ’ll be THE set top box .
https://gizmodo.com/android-marketplace-hits-30-000-apps-still-has-serious-5494875
General media set top box features
Having YouTube and a web web browser on your determined top box is ok , but ready top boxes are for TVs , are n’t they ? And what you really want to do on your video is learn video , which is why Google necessitate to step beyond just glom up their own products to the box and expand into other television delivery .
• Hulu , plus support for various segmented online cyclosis video , like cbs.com , abc.com and Daily Show / Colbert Report websites . This should n’t be a job provided Google also has Flash support on their dictated top box Chrome browser app , but you never know these days
• Netflix Watch Now !
• Local streaming : Google may require everything streamed from the web swarm , but not everyone has the pipe to support full timber video . So local meshwork streaming , yes please
• Good codec support : A corollary of local streaming , but in edict to watch all the proper codecs , containers and so off ( DivX , XviD , h.264 , MKV , etc ) you ’ll have to indorse them . This is n’t a problem anymore , since just about all thenetwork streamersare hopping on board with the late file type
• Media Center Extender : Being capable to act as an extender to Microsoft ’s Windows Media Center — which lets you have access code to overseas telegram TV , but without having have a adipose tissue box seat next to the TV with CableCARD support — would bridge over net telecasting well with traditional broadcast picture . It also means pay off Microsoft money to certify the tech , if Microsoft will even allow Google the privilege . But having all those features PLUS what amount to a TiVo experience in one box would make this a must buy , take over the price was low enough .
https://gizmodo.com/hd-media-player-battlemodo-apple-tv-killers-5397986
The other , eldritch , component to this rumor is that Sony need to embed this Android set top boxful technical school in its TVs and “ appliances ” , which is wispy and broad . video are obvious , since the easy room of making your telly brand more worthwhile is shoving software components that let it do much more than just be a TV . The gizmo bit might be something as simple as a small LCD - based kitchen computer , or a primed top box of their own , or even place this inside their PS3 . All our wishlist items stand for Sony ’s version too , except it also comes with an item about Sony not proprietarying it to death .
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