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On 2014-04-06, RS Wood wrote:
Amazingly, this just hit OSNews: AndroidTV.

Feed: OSNews
Title: This is Android TV
Author: Thom Holwerda
Link: http://osnews.com/story/27659/This_is_Android_TV
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 15:53:13 -0400

According to documents obtained exclusively by The Verge, Google is
about to launch a renewed assault on your television set called Android
TV. Major video app providers are building for the platform right now.
Android TV may sound like a semantic difference - after all, Google TV
was based on Android - but it's something very different. Android TV is
no longer a crazy attempt to turn your TV into a bigger, more powerful
smartphone. "Android TV is an entertainment interface, not a computing
platform," writes Google. "It's all about finding and enjoying content
with the least amount of friction." It will be "cinematic, fun, fluid,
and fast." What does that all mean? It means that Android TV will look
and feel a lot more like the rest of the set top boxes on the market,
including Apple TV, Amazon's Fire TV, and Roku. All these devices look
the same. It's going to be very hard to stand out if they all have the
same services. On top of that - I'm not putting a separate box next to
my TV. Why can't my tablet or PC act as the box? This is 2014, is it
not? If you see a separate box, they blew it.

I bought the new FireTV from Amazon. I had a Roku but like this new
platform much more. Mostly because it feel responsive. The voice search
thing really works well too. But mostly it feels like a response box.

I did a voice search for a TV show I wanted to watch and it found it
both on Hulu and Amazon and defaulted to Hulu, I'm guessing cause it was
cheaper?? Google will hit soon I'm sure, and Apple already has their
Apple TV platform, which I bought into about 3 times and still don't
like it.

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Marek Novotny
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