Google TV Engaged with HBO, CNN, and Amazon
Google TV will soon be coming soon. The mighty search-engine has reportedly signed a contract with media and also internet companies to supply the content of these digital TV services.
Quoted by Reuters on Thursday (10/07/2010), a company that has agreed to establish cooperation for Google TV shows including NBC Universal, including CNBC, HBO Time Warner and Amazon. Others, cable networks company Turner Broadcasting, said Google is currently working to optimize a few websites to be viewed on Google TV, including CNN and Cartoon Network. While NBC Universal will present access to CNBC financial news shows, and HBO will also be presenting a variety of impressions that are not less interesting.
What about Amazon? its Video On Demand service offers access to more than 75 video titles that can be rented or purchased. Netflix is also offering an unlimited TV shows and movies service instantly.
“We also work with news sites like The New York Times and microblogging service Twitter,” Google added in the statement. FYI, Google TV presence will be more complete with the Google TV devices that will be launched in the near future. Sony and Logitech was already declared their readiness to welcome the service.
3D TV Toshiba Glasses-Free With PS3 Brain Processor
Toshiba finally explicitly introduce its revolutionary 3D television. Users can enjoy the promised 3-dimensional presentation without using special glasses like in general. Toshiba also claims this innovation became the first glasses-free 3D TV in the world who are ready to be marketed, while the other vendors is also developing glasses-free 3D TV technology.
Quoted from the New York Times on Wednesday, Toshiba’s latest television turned out to be using the PS3 processor to ‘brain’, namely that the cell processor has 8 core units in it. Unlike previous LCD technology. Now, high definition television uses a special layer that is placed on the top edge of the screen. Thus, process 9 images at once to display 3-D is not an easy matter. To achieve this goal required a powerful processor. What is offered by Toshiba is indeed similar to the Nintendo 3DS glance. The devices are claimed to be able to convert 2-dimensional drawings into 3-dimensional in real time. But Toshiba claims its products have a wider viewing angle, so that it can be enjoyed by several people at once.
Toshiba will market the television is in a choice of size 12 inch (12GL1) and 20-inch (20GL1). Consumers can buy it in Japan starting in December 2010 with spend around USD 1440 for 12-inch version, and USD 2880 for 20-inch version.
USA This Autumn : It`s Time to Launch Google TV
Long awaited Google TV will seem to be soon released this autumn in USA, that will be around September this year. The service which called ‘smart TV’ is combining TV real-time with internet. Which means audience is allowed to watch what’s on the TV and what’s on videos sites like YouTube.
As quoted from BBC last Friday, a special device on the TV will be connected to Google Box. The connector will enable users not only accessing website, but also downloading various kinds of apps/application. Google entrusts Sony and Logitech to manage the device.
Analyst of Screan Reseach Firm, Dan Cryan, stated that such television is ‘so Google’. The existence of Google TV is a sign of Google’s ambition to collect information from all over the world. Cryan also said that previous some research had tried to connect television to internet, but none of them made it. The presentation of Google TV is a prove that a good and qualified web-TV can be made by some gadgets on the Television.
