Google Announces Web Television: Google TV
Google just announced Google TV at Google I/O today. It’s basically a giant TiVo with Chrome built in:
Google TV is a new experience for television that combines the TV that you already know with the freedom and power of the Internet. With Google Chrome built in, you can access all of your favorite websites and easily move between television and the web. This opens up your TV from a few hundred channels to millions of channels of entertainment across TV and the web. Your television is also no longer confined to showing just video. With the entire Internet in your living room, your TV becomes more than a TV — it can be a photo slideshow viewer, a gaming console, a music player and much more.
It’ll be interesting if they can keep the streaming quality high. YouTube certainly doesn’t have the best track record in that department.
These devices will go on sale this fall, and will be available at Best Buy stores nationwide. You can sign up here to get updates on Google TV availability.