By Roy Choi |
Google TV didn’t receive any stage time today at the Google I/O keynote, it will be receiving Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 and the latest version of Chrome. While Google has not elaborated on what new features Jelly Bean 4.2.2 will bring to Google TV, it…
By Brandon Russell |
By the time this year’s CES is over Google TV is going to be everywhere on everything—but that might not be such a bad thing. At least for Google. Companies must be sensing a trend, or maybe Google is getting more lax on where it…
By Brandon Russell |
Google TV will have a big presence at next week’s CES as the search giant works toward making its platform more mainstream. The Mountain View company announced on Friday a number of upcoming partnerships and upgrades, including products from Asus, Hisense, TCL and others. Existing…
By Sean P. Aune |
LG will introduce multiple new Google TV-enabled television sets at CES 2013. Google’s streaming media platform has been getting a bit more powerful as of late, and now LG thinks it may be time to give folks a few more options at trying it out.…
By Roy Choi |
FCC filings have outed a new Google TV set-box unit from Netgear, the NeoTV Prime. While the testing documents don’t actually show the device that plugs in to the TV, it does reveal a Bluetooth-connected, QWERTY keyboard remote with a trackpad. The remote has embedded…
By Todd Haselton |
Google announced on Wednesday that it has officially updated its Google TV application and that the new version will begin rolling out to LG devices in the next couple of weeks. Other Google TV consoles will receive the update in the coming months. The update…
By Killian Bell |
Google TV owners in Europe have been given the ability to buy or rent music and movies from the Google Play store, just over a month after the feature made its debut in the United States. France, Germany, and the United Kingdom will be able…
By Sean P. Aune |
Google has announced that it is finally rolling out the ability to purchase and rent movies, TV episodes and music via the Google Play store on Google TV. Seeing as the television is where most users would like to watch their media, it only makes…
By Brandon Russell |
Hisense on Monday announced the Pulse with Google TV, a $99 machine that promises to bring apps, Web, search and live TV to your living room. Available in mid-November, the Hisense Pulse will further stoke your love for Google by bringing you “true plug-and-play versatility,…
By Mohammed Alotaibi |
If you’ve been put off from trying Google TV due to the price, Chinese manufacturer Hisense is coming to your rescue. Google has teamed up Hisense for a new Google TV device that is planned to retail for under $100. Just how far under is…
By Mark Hearn |
While Google’s Android platform is making several advancements in mobile gaming, the Google TV platform has been left out to dry. However, this draught may soon come to an end, as cloud-based game streaming company OnLive is coming to Google TV. Already integrated into VIZIO’s…
By Mark Hearn |
Vizio is accepting pre-orders for its $99 Co-Star Google TV set-top box. The modem-sized device provides access to applications and delivers “full screen Web browsing to your existing HDTV without interrupting what you’re watching,” Vizio’s website explains. It is equipped with two HDMI ports, an…
By Mark Hearn |
Some people believe that the announcement of the Nexus Q was Google’s official death sentence for Google TV, but that won’t stop Sony from releasing it’s NSZ-GS7. If you’ve been contemplating adding a bit of Android to your television setup, then this awkwardly named set-top…
By Jon Rettinger |
We got a brief eyes-on of the Nexus Q at Google’s I/O Wednesday afternoon, and now we have our very own unit in the TechnoBuffalo offices. Aimed at consumer living rooms, the Nexus Q is an odd little device that truthfully looks like one of…
By Sean P. Aune |
Google’s new Nexus Q promises a lot of home entertainment opportunities, streaming video, Android integration and … did someone forget about Google TV? It’s been a couple years now since Google tried to convince the tech world it was going to take over the world…
By Todd Haselton |
Google just announced that today, Google Play will now offer TV shows, the option to buy movies and the option to subscribe to magazines. Google partnered with Disney, ABC, NBC Universal, Sony Pictures and Paramount for its Google Movie purchases and TV shows. It also…
By Todd Haselton |
The Google Play store is allegedly full of addendums this morning, just ahead of the company’s Google I/O developer conference. The latest bit suggests that Google is going to launch television shows in the Google Play store. Currently, users can purchase and rent movies but…
By Killian Bell |
With just one day to go until Google’s I/O conference kicks off in San Francisco, the company has issued an update to its official Google I/O 2012 app for Android to ensure it’s ready for the big day. This update brings a number of new…
By Brandon Russell |
Google isn’t giving up on Google TV. The company has continued to offer updates over the past several months, and it sounds like the search giant is preparing to issue something major at its upcoming I/O conference. According to sources familiar with this week’s keynote,…
By Killian Bell |
Google TV will finally make its debut in the United Kingdom next month, more than 18 months after the Android-powered service launched in the United States. Sony’s new NSZ-GS7 Internet player and NSZ-GP9 Blu-ray player will be the first two devices to offer the service, with…
By Brandon Russell |
Noah’s subbing for Jon R this week to tackle questions and queries from Buffalo readers, viewers and fans! In this episode, Noah addresses whether you should you buy an iPhone now or wait for iOS 6 and the next iPhone. And what about BB10 –…
By Killian Bell |
LG has announced that it will bring its Google TV sets to the United States later this month, with sales set to begin during the week commencing May 21. The Internet-connected sets are powered by the Android operating system, and they offer viewers a whole…
By Noah Kravitz |
Last November I reviewed Google TV 2.0, a software update pushed out to owners of Logitech and Sony GTV devices. The folks at Sony lent me a 46-inch SIT for testing purposes, and while I found the update to be a marked improvement over the GTV…
By Sean P. Aune |
It would seem that Google has some big plans for its Google TV system, including making sure you can talk to it for some commands. According to Patently Apple, a mere six days before Apple announced the iPhone 4S and Siri, Google was busy filing…
