GoogleTV: This Isn't Your Fathers Cable TV.
Posted by The Blogging Desk on Tue, Sep 07, 2010
GoogleTV will not be my savior. But it could be cool.
Today it was announced from Eric Schmidt that GoogleTV would be coming out this fall. Videos circulating online shows a beta tester running through the menus of what looks to be a test GoogleTV unit. It attaches to your already existing cable box to give a better cable viewing experience. Not only that, but you will be able to browse the web in it's entirety.
Several of the features are very slick. The main feature, allows you to search for any show or movie, say, Bones. When you type that in you'll get search results from your cable provider and also from the internet of various places you're able to watch. Netflix, Hulu, and also FiOS, for instance. The results all show up in a very clean manner so that it's almost indecipherable that you're getting results from other places.
You could say that it looks like a full featured AppleTV, but with a cable subscription. That's a negative in my book. Certain providers are going to have this Google Experience built-in to the box, so you won't need another one. You will, however, be able to buy one separately.
Let's just hope this isn't another Google Buzz, Wave, or Shopper. Am I right, folks?