Google TV 2.0

The Google TV platform has not yet reached Europe, has been postponed, and should be active since 2012. Google TV was launched in the U.S. a year ago, by integration in Smart TV boxes Sony and Logitech. The first attempt was a great success, so much so that Sony and Logitech have been forced to cut prices of their products due to poor demand. Despite the decline, however, the Google Smart TV to be sluggish.

The Mountain View company has recognized that the first version of Google TV “was not” perfect. The main cause of his failure was the difficulty of partnerships with companies in the audiovisual sector in the U.S., but also “some complexity” of the platform, like Google publicly confesses. The update, however, will consider the feedback: simpler interface, improved search, YouTube experience even more rapid adeguara and more applications.

Please note that Google TV is based on the Android operating system and browser Google Chrome with integrated Flash technology. The new interface will be based smartphones and Android tablet, to be able to quickly access some applications, to search for their favorite title in a video library of 80,000 movies and episodes of TV series (cable or satellite, Netflix, Amazon, YouTube and other sites) . Android comes Marke t, “Android developers can now take their mobile applications on TV.”