Over the last few days, there’s been a lot of rumors and speculation regarding Google TV. We’ve heard it being said that Google TV would miss CES 2011 altogether, while companies would be freezing their plans for the Internet-on-your-TV idea from Google entirely. Further, it was being said that Logitech was freezing production of their [...]
Logitech has reportedly frozen supplies of its Revue Google TV box from manufacturer Gigabyte, with sources claiming the company is waiting on Google to finalize either updates or a new version of the platform. According to DigiTimes, December and January’s production has been halted, although in-store supplies of the STB aren’t expected to be impacted. [...]
Oh dear. Google TV isn’t having the best of starts to its life in the internet-connected TV world and Logitech seems to have taken notice. DigiTimes‘ nameless sources today report that Gigabyte, the company charged with building Revue units for Logi, has been instructed to stop production of them for the period covering December 2010 [...]
Logitech has pushed out the first update for their Revue Google TV box, and it’s addressed two of the biggest complaints about the media streaming STB. The new firmware allows Revue users with Netflix accounts to search for content and update their queue from within the Google TV app itself; additionally, the Dual View picture-in-picture [...]
Here’s Kevin Bacon playing Kevin Bacon’s biggest fan in a video not so cleverly disguised as an ad spot for the Logitech Revue Google TV unit. Because if anyone could rescue Google TV from the bowels of beta testing hell, it would be Kevin Bacon. Well, maybe. Perhaps Kevin Bacon is rad and all, but [...]
You can’t accuse Google of being unambitious. Not content with having their Android OS take great bites out of the smartphone market, the search giant has also put it to work as the core of Google TV, a new play for the home entertainment segment. Most early-adopters will dip their tow with the Logitech Revue, [...]
The Logitech Revue Google TV set-top box was something I was interested in until all the major networks started to block Google TV from accessing their online programming. That has really hurt the appeal of the system to me since I mostly wanted to be able to watch shows I missed and didn’t have the [...]
The Logitech Revue is in many ways the flagship Google TV launch device. While Sony integrated Google’s new media platform into its line of Internet TVs and the Internet TV Blu-ray player, the Revue is a dedicated Google TV device, albeit with a few additional features like optional an optional video calling camera. It’s also [...]
Google TV launched on two retail product lines: The Logitech Revue and Sony Internet TV. I have both of them and there are definitely some clear distinctions between the two. I’m not sure one is entirely better than another, but it’s strange, although not without precedent, to see Google TV implemented differently. It’s just more [...]
Google TV launched on two retail product lines: The Logitech Revue and Sony Internet TV. I have both of them and there are definitely some clear distinctions between the two. I’m not sure one is entirely better than another, but it’s strange, although not without precedent, to see Google TV implemented differently. It’s just more [...]