GOOGLE TV

Name: Shelley Miller
Title: Google TV: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know
Author: Nilay Patel
Source: Engadget.com
Date: May 21, 2010
Link: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/21/google-tv-everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know/

Description:
When forced to choose between entertainment on the net or on TV, most consumers will choose to give up the vast options of the web, opting instead for the audio/visual experience of television. The integration of the web and television has been tried before, without success. This time, however, Google TV is here, offering a “seamless merging” of anything on the world-wide web displayed on the television screen of your choice. The menu overlays the video picture for simultaneous input and output.
Google TV is a result of collaboration between many big-name companies:
· Google will provide the Chrome web browser.
· Sony plans to build the BRAVIA Internet TV and Blu-ray players.
· Intel is making the Atom CE 4100 processor chip.
· Logitech is building the “companion box” using an Android platform (use your iPhone or the new remote coming soon).
· Adobe is making Flash 10.1.
· Dish Network will sell Google TV-ready dish boxes this fall.
· Best Buy will sell Google TV devices this fall.
Stayed tuned this fall for product availability. Will Google TV products dominate 2010’s holiday wish lists?

Comments: This new integration of technologies will have the same appeal in the classroom as it will at home. The superb audio/visual experience of a quality TV screen will make internet viewing more engaging. In addition to use at school, students could use Google TV at home to do any internet-based assignment, such as blogging, wikis, web searches, applets, interacting with teacher websites, and so forth. If this is the next generation of television, then it is just a matter of time until Google TV is commonly used by educators and students alike.