Will Google TV, watch TV or just another rerun the admonitions of previous attempts to Sun TV with the Internet? We can find more on Wednesday when Logitech shows off his Revue Internet TV unit streams, high resolution, on-demand video from the Internet to your HDTV via a wireless or wired network. The following week, Sony will debut a HDTV with Google in the oven to set itself.
Consider yourself warned. The next several weeks, Google and its hardware and content providers advertising Google TV that promote celebrity Clay Wrestling during week on network TV sweep.
What we know about Google TV
Google now whipping up a suitable amount of tension. Earlier this week it announced content providers including ESPN, HBO, CNBC, Twitter, TBS, TNT, CNN, Amazon Video on demand and Netflix.We also know Google TV can be used to search and surf; use apps built for Android-based systems; assigning Internet and TV content on a screen, and set up a field Snabbstart-menu of your favorite TV channels, Google TV apps and websites.
But this is $ 20 k question: will consumers asked?History tells us anything. Started back ten years ago with AOL failed interactive TV Unit, AOL TELEVISION, it has been a decade of ambitious failures from large and small tech companies.
At least in the bud TV and the Web are met with statically. Consumers do not want to mess with the snake pit cables behind their TV and is not convinced of surfing the Web from the sofa is something they are interested in. Device makers could not at the same time simplify their products enough mass appeal-be it set up the hardware or connect people to online content.
Yahoo's Struggles
Fast forward to 2009. Almost 18 months ago, launched Google search rival Yahoo Yahoo connected TV widgets that allow you to view Internet content on your TV.
Similar to the Google TV, Yahoo widgets include content from Amazon video on demand, CBS, Showtime, EBay, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and even Blockbuster (at least for now).Several manufacturers cooperate also Yahoo widgets with Netflix streaming to an even closer resemblance to the Google TV.Unlike Google TV full-screen experience, but take Yahoo's TV widgets up only part of the monitor TV, except in the case of photos and video displays.
Widgets by The Numbers
After 18 months of development features Yahoo's TV directory a little more than 65 different widgets, more than 7000 registered widget developers and partnership with only 5 of the 10 biggest TV manufacturers all over the world.
The end result is approximately 4 million Yahoo-connected TV in use worldwide, according to Yahoo.Those who are not exactly distribution adoption numbers when you consider there are nearly 115 million watch TV households in the United States alone, according to a recent report from the Nielsen Company.
From the TV People Want More TV
Part of the reason for such low adoption rates, perhaps people just want more TV from their TV and not much else. A recent blog post by Forrester Research said that while the Internet-connected TV may be popular among producers, "consumers are struggling to understand the benefits."People "seems unable to imagine to do anything with these TV than watching more TELEVISION," says Forrester.
Forrester surveyed nearly 4,000 adults in the United States and found that the top uses people to use their Internet-connected TV includes Netflix, full-length TV episodes, movie rentals, and get access to pictures, music and video stored on their home computers, Facebook, Twitter and Farmville does not seem to attract users to the Internet-connected TV.
Hope for the future
However, there is some hope for the future of Google and its competitors; there are only two million Internet-connected TV in USA today, according to The New York Times, But Forrester says major electronics retailers in the United States has already committed itself to selling only Internet-connected TV 2011.2015, market research firm predicts, one-third of U.S. homes will have Internet-connected TVS. so that Internet-connected TV set-top boxes are clear and here to stay, but it is unclear whether people are prepared to use them.
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