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October 4, 2010

Google TV wants to rock your living room

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Google released more information today about Google TV, their attempt to marry Web content (video, social media, etc.) to that big flat-panel TV you wish you could do more with in your living room.

It's basically a big tease, meant to get geeks like you and me salivating about channeling Internet content -- and apps! -- through your TV. But can Google and its partners deliver a software/hardware experience that makes Internet-on-your-TV a fun and effortless experience. (There are two ways to get Google TV: 1) through a TV specially built with Google TV inside or 2) through a small Google TV box you plug into your TV set.)

That's the thing about my TV now -- all I need is .001 percent of my brain cells to operate it. I turn to my TV when I want something completely brainless to do. All I have to say, Google, is that you better make Google TV as dumb-proof as possible.

Don't make me think!

That said, I must admit, I'm feeling the tech-lust organ in my body starting to tingle (it's right next to my spleen, folks)... Google TV is starting to look sweeter and sweeter. Let's hope it lives up to the mounting hype.


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Posted by Gus Sentementes at 3:01 PM | | Comments (3)
Categories: *NEWS*, Big Ideas, For The Home, Gadgets, Web Dev & Apps
        

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"All I have to say, Google, is that you better make Google TV as dumb-proof as possible. "
Here, Here!

Posted by: Michelle Brown | October 4, 2010 3:52 PM

Love TV. Love Google. Not sure I want to see the two joined.

Posted by: ruth | October 4, 2010 4:37 PM

Great article Gus. I agree, if Google doesn't make it extremely easy for everyone to use, then it will a failure right out of the box.
I use TV software now, that is as easy as it gets, from LiveTV-On-PC.com . All I did was install the program to start watching broadcasts and shows. If that company can make it easy, there's no reason google can't do the same.

Posted by: Monica P | October 4, 2010 5:54 PM

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About Gus G. Sentementes
Gus G. Sentementes (@gussent on Twitter) has been writing for The Baltimore Sun since 2000. He's covered real estate, business, prisons, and suburban and Baltimore City crime and cops. He was one of the first reporters at The Sun to use multimedia tools and Web applications -- a video camera, an iPhone -- to cover breaking news. He hopes to cover Maryland geeks and the gadgets and Web sites they build, and learn -- and share -- something new every day.

Gus has a wife, a young daughter and two feuding cats. They live in Northeast Baltimore.
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