Many electronics and computer technology captains have dreamed such innovation in the television sector being incorporating online televisions. Today, Sony NSX-GT1 series of TVs is the first to incorporate Google TV.
Sony is doing something great in this technology of combining much functionality into one unit. Now you can imagine having played your local TVs and the online TVs and in a similar product launched enable you watch Google TVs and play your blue ray player. Sony has announced complete information on its NSX-GT1 line of Blu-ray player and its NSZ-GT1 Blu-ray player, being the first harvest of their kind operational with the Google TV service.
The launched TVs vary in size from 24 to 46” (in inches) and have their estimated prices ranging from $600 to $1,400. The new product has commenced selling and is shipped in October 16 2010 which was made available to Best Buy.com and Sonystyle.com with the similar blue ray player valued at $400 also available at these web-based stores.
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Sony's NSZ-GT1 Google TV-equipped Blu-ray player.
Google ensures that a Television integrated with all the available video contents and date streams not minding whether it comes from your local TV antenna or from cable, satellite or the internet to include web TVs like YouTube and Netflix are watched in the new Sony LCD-Google in-built TV. Google ensures also that you search the TVs as you perform search on Google using its Internet Browser (Google Chrome built into it) and also plays the Blue Ray disc with the latest Technology gadgetry designed into the Sony LCD Google TV. More amazing fact here is the stylish figure of the special remote control which has the keyboard for typing and searching for media on the TV and general web for information alongside with the remote buttons for various functions like other devices in your AV system. With a closer look, you will observe that this has solved several problems and has merged several functions of the TVs and the PCs.
Sony says they are doing more to allow streaming of music or video files from in-home PCs and other networked gadgets which are not available in Sony TVs and Blue-ray play operating on Google TV’s software though exist in Logitech.
Sony Internet TVs
The Sony NSX-GT1 series, which will inevitably be known as "The Google TV," and which Sony calls the "Sony Internet TV, the world's first HDTV powered by Google" in its ads, includes four sizes. Each TV has four HDMI and four USB inputs, as well as built-in 802.11N Wi-Fi, so you don't need to run an Ethernet cable to your living room to access the Internet.
The Sony NSX-GT1 series, which will inevitably be known as "The Google TV," and which Sony calls the "Sony Internet TV, the world's first HDTV powered by Google" in its ads, includes four sizes. Each TV has four HDMI and four USB inputs, as well as built-in 802.11N Wi-Fi, so you don't need to run an Ethernet cable to your living room to access the Internet.
Sony's remote is designed for thumbs-only use, complete with touchpad (upper right, under the 'home' key).
Google TV software
Both the Sony TVs and the Blu-ray player share essentially the same Google TV software with the Logitech Revue set-top box.
Both the Sony TVs and the Blu-ray player share essentially the same Google TV software with the Logitech Revue set-top box.
The basic pitch for Google TV is the ability to search all of your TV content through a search bar similar to Google.com. The bar overlays whatever screen you're on and combs through online video sources as well as live TV from your cable/satellite box--or antenna in the case of the TVs--to find content (currently the Sony TV can only search only DVR programs for Dish DVRs, although a Sony representative told us he expects compatibility with non-Dish DVRs to roll out over time). The idea is that you don't need to know whether the video originates from Netflix, your cable box, YouTube, or a random Web site--Google just finds it.
For launch, the Google TV software has support for several streaming-media services, including YouTube, Amazon VOD, Netflix, Pandora, and Napster. Google announced partnerships with TBS, TNT, CNN, and HBO, which take the form of customized Web sites and, in the case of HBO, access to HBO Go's service for subscribers.
Sony adds many of the niche streaming video providers found on its Bravia Internet Video service, such as Blip.tv, Howcast, and the like, to its products, along with its proprietary Qriocity video-on-demand play.
Google TV also has built-in apps for Twitter, the NBA, and CNBC at launch, and we'd be shocked if Facebook didn't show up soon. Later in 2011, there will also be support for the Android Marketplace, so you'll be able to use Android apps on your HDTV. Phone apps will be scaled to fit bigger TV screens, and Google expects developers to start creating apps specifically for the Google TV platform.
Beyond these services, however, Google TV's big selling point is the capability to directly access any Web site. Google TV has a built-in Chrome browser that supports Flash 10.1 and HTML5 video. No other current Internet-connected TV features a built-in Web browser. Google's browser should allow virtually the entire world of video on the Web, including video from sites like ComedyCentral.com and PBS.org, to show up on your HDTV.
The accent is on "should," however, and at launch Google TV is already missing one of the key providers of Web-based video: Hulu.com. The browser inside Google TV is technically capable of handling Hulu.com's massive library of free streaming video, but as of press time we were told Hulu is blocking the Google TV from accessing its content. Google and Hulu are apparently in talks regarding the situation, but it's unclear whether that would mean paid-for Hulu Plus access (at $9.95 per month) or full free access to the Hulu content available on a standard browser. We're guessing Google TV will get Hulu Plus once the dust settles, but there's no telling for now.
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