We’ve seen web-enabled TV – but with the release of the Android remote app, Google TV is taking a different approach, partnering with Intel, Sony, Logitech, Adobe and Dish Network to provide mass distribution of the Android-based TV platform. The search giant is betting big on Google TV’s ability to run Android apps and its unique integration of the web, search, voice and the best of TV.
Google TV is search-driven, which means that you can expect to do a fair amount of of work every time you turn on the TV. Locating and playing content using the Logitech Revue (or any future Google TV platform) requires cruising through an on-the-TV-screen interface, and typing search terms that could be related to whatever you want to watch.
So how does one control this system? With a complex cast of controllers from Logitech, of course. Let’s Revue, shall we?
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