At the Google I/O conference at Moscone West, San Francisco, Google has announced “Google TV” a new experience made for television which brings together the TV you know and love with the flexibility and power of the Web.
“Television is becoming the true third window, with the computer and the phone, allowing you to access what you want when you want it,” Eric Kim, who heads Intel’s digital home division, said in an interview. “The dumb tube is turning into an intelligent device, a smart TV.”
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Sony will launch a full line of integrated TVs and a Blu-Ray player. Logitech will roll out a companion box that will allow the integration of Google TV into an existing set up.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt takes the stage with the heads of Sony, Logitech, Dish, Best Buy and Adobe.
Schmidt is playing the role of friendly interviewer, throwing softballs like why is Flash important to Google TV and will people go out and buy new TVs because of this news.
Ergen: “We think it’s going to grow our business and we think it will open up opportunity.”
“We already know our customers watch TV and then go to another room … and they watch stuff on the computer,” he adds. “We know they want to combine those things in a seamless way.”
Sound like some thing you would be interested in?
Google is expecting so, as they have partnered up with Sony, Intel and Logitech to begin producing a box you can hook up to your television.