Ambarish Kenghe, Developer Product Manager, Google TV has announced via the Official GoogleBlog, verbatim:
It’s been almost five months since we introduced Google TV to the world at Google I/O, and today we’re happy to give you an update on our progress. For those who haven’t yet heard of it, Google TV is a new way to think about TV: it’s a platform that combines your current TV programming and the open web into a single, seamless entertainment experience.
One of our goals with Google TV is to finally open up the living room and enable new innovation from content creators, programmers, developers and advertisers. By bringing Google Chrome and access to the entire Internet, you can easily navigate to thousands of websites to watch your favorite web videos, play Flash games, view photos, read movie reviews or chat with friends—all on the big screen.
Since our announcement, we’ve been overwhelmed by interest from partners on how they can use the Google TV platform to personalize, monetize and distribute their content in new ways. Most of these partner sites already work with Google TV, but many are choosing to further enhance their premium web content for viewing on the television. Today, we’re excited to announce several of these content partners.
• Turner Broadcasting has been hard at work optimizing some of their most popular websites for viewing on Google TV, including TBS, TNT, CNN, Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, available anytime through Google TV.
• NBC Universal has collaborated with Google TV to bring CNBC Real-Time, an application that allows you to track your favorite stocks and access news feeds while enjoying the best financial news from CNBC directly on the TV screen.
• HBO will bring access to hundreds of hours of programming to Google TV with HBO GO. Authenticated subscribers will soon be able to access all of their favorite HBO content on-demand in an enhanced website for Google TV.
• NBA has built NBA Game Time, an application that lets you follow game scores in real-time and catch up on the latest highlights from your favorite team in HD.
In addition, we’ve partnered with some of the leading premium content providers to bring thousands of movie and TV titles, on-demand, directly to your television. Amazon Video On Demand offers access to over 75,000 titles for rental or purchase, and Netflix will offer the ability to instantly watch unlimited movies and TV shows, anytime, streaming directly to the TV.
We have also been working with some leading technology and media companies to optimize their content for Google TV, including news sites like The New York Times and USA Today; music sites like VEVO, Pandora and Napster; information networks like Twitter; and online networks like blip.tv. And with YouTube Leanback, we can offer the best experience for you to watch your favorite viral videos and personalized channels on the television.
You can get a sneak peek of some of these apps in the video below:
This is just the beginning. Over the next few weeks, you can expect to hear from more sites that are enhancing their web content for the television. If you’re interested in learning more about how to optimize your website for viewing on Google TV, please visit our developer page.
Today we also launched a new website that provides more information about these apps and all of the other great features of Google TV. And if you want to stay up to speed on the latest developments from the Google TV team, check out our new blog.
We’re really excited about the enthusiasm surrounding the platform and can’t wait for it to reach your living room. Devices powered by Google TV will launch this month, so look out for more information in the next few weeks from Sony on its Internet TV and Blu-Ray player, and Logitech on its companion box.
Source: Official GoogleBlog
All those content deals are lame except for HBO. An NBA deal would be awesome, IF YOU COULD WATCH LIVE GAMES.
An NBC deal would be awesome, IF IT INCLUDED ANY OF THEIR POPULAR TV SHOWS. You get CNBC on the Google TV!? Big whoop!
If I were Google I’d be embarrassed to even mention those deals, except for the HBO one. That one is pretty cool.
Now we need to encourage HBO to make an iPad app! (And make sure the app supports AirPlay.) Now THAT would be awesome!
All those content deals are lame except for HBO. An NBA deal would be awesome, IF YOU COULD WATCH LIVE GAMES.
An NBC deal would be awesome, IF IT INCLUDED ANY OF THEIR POPULAR TV SHOWS. You get CNBC on the Google TV!? Big whoop!
If I were Google I’d be embarrassed to even mention those deals, except for the HBO one. That one is pretty cool.
Now we need to encourage HBO to make an iPad app! (And make sure the app supports AirPlay.) Now THAT would be awesome!
I think this has a better chance than apple tv
At least the content creators seem to be in control
I think this has a better chance than apple tv
At least the content creators seem to be in control
Vatdoro:
That should be easy, they would be extremely happy to comply.
Vatdoro:
That should be easy, they would be extremely happy to comply.
Why yes. The content creators should be in total control and you should just take it however they decide to give it to you…. moron.
Why yes. The content creators should be in total control and you should just take it however they decide to give it to you…. moron.
Nothing on how much the shows will cost?
Ok, now how much are you going to have to pay to get googles content?
Nothing on how much the shows will cost?
Ok, now how much are you going to have to pay to get googles content?
“We’re really excited about the enthusiasm surrounding the platform”
Sounds like they’re trying really hard to CREATE some excitement about the platform. I know people who are excited about the cheaper Roku boxes, and I know people who are excited about Apple TV. I don’t know anyone who is excited about Google TV. Web TV died almost a decade ago. Why is Google trying to bring it back?
They’re just hoping if the say “there’s a lot of excitement around this” enough, then eventually someone will actually believe it.
“We’re really excited about the enthusiasm surrounding the platform”
Sounds like they’re trying really hard to CREATE some excitement about the platform. I know people who are excited about the cheaper Roku boxes, and I know people who are excited about Apple TV. I don’t know anyone who is excited about Google TV. Web TV died almost a decade ago. Why is Google trying to bring it back?
They’re just hoping if the say “there’s a lot of excitement around this” enough, then eventually someone will actually believe it.
the hbo deal is a fail… you have to currently subscribe to hbo through your cable provider to get any content…. even on this platform.
the hbo deal is a fail… you have to currently subscribe to hbo through your cable provider to get any content…. even on this platform.
All they are doing is optimizing their websites… Google TV is lame… I’ve been able to do this since I bought a tv with a VGA plug… It’s only going to handle websites and display them on your tv… Big freakin whoop…
All they are doing is optimizing their websites… Google TV is lame… I’ve been able to do this since I bought a tv with a VGA plug… It’s only going to handle websites and display them on your tv… Big freakin whoop…
I agree, when I first read the Turner section I thought, wow all those channels will be watched thorugh this? But no, you just get customized access to there web site. Big Whoop.
This thing sounds like web tv all over again.
I agree, when I first read the Turner section I thought, wow all those channels will be watched thorugh this? But no, you just get customized access to there web site. Big Whoop.
This thing sounds like web tv all over again.
Again — you’re going to have to turn on your Google TV, open the web browser, navigate to a content website using your remote control, then navigate the website to bring up video like you would on your PC?
And this is appealing why, exactly?
News flash, Google. The people who are willing to go to that much trouble to watch Internet video on their TV are already just hooking their PCs and Macs up to their TVs. Boxes like Google TV are supposed to appeal to people who want a simple solution, and this ain’t simple.
——RM
Again — you’re going to have to turn on your Google TV, open the web browser, navigate to a content website using your remote control, then navigate the website to bring up video like you would on your PC?
And this is appealing why, exactly?
News flash, Google. The people who are willing to go to that much trouble to watch Internet video on their TV are already just hooking their PCs and Macs up to their TVs. Boxes like Google TV are supposed to appeal to people who want a simple solution, and this ain’t simple.
——RM
Have they also given at least an SRP on the Logitech GTV?
Have they also given at least an SRP on the Logitech GTV?
HBO will be useless to anyone who isn’t already paying for it. HBO.go is a service that allows current HBO subscribers (via cable/satellite) in the US to access HBO content online (they use Flash for that, of course).
If anyone thinks that buying GoogleTV, they’ll be able to disconnect their cable get HBO on the device (even for a separate fee), this ain’t it.