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After waiting almost two years for it, Google TV is finally going to make it over to the UK courtesy of a Sony set top box. Whether it’ll actually be worth buying, that’s another matter entirely, but at least it’s actually here at last.
If you’re super desperate to get your mitts on Google’s latest living room assault, you can pre-order your brand new Sony NSZ-GS7 Google TV right now for the third week of July. It is £200 mind you, so it’s not quite Apple TV or Roku-money, but it does come with a fancy keyboard-packing remote, and a whole bunch of apps including Chrome, Twitter, YouTube, and other essentials. It also sports 8GB of internal storage; runs Android 3.2 Honeycomb; will pump out 1080p to your TV, and has a bountiful supply of connections including HDMI, optical out, USB, Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n), and Bluetooth.
Sony’s following up its Google TV-powered Internet Player with a Google TV Blu-ray player later this summer, but there’s no word on when actual TVs with Google TV integrated into them will land in the UK. Is Google TV the holy grail of smart TV platforms? Probably not, judging by the experiences of our American cousins, but at least we’ll be able to find out soon enough for ourselves.
This is a bit late I’m afraid. Just yesterday afternoon I got iPlayer,4oD, Demand 5, YouTube and TV Catchup running on my Raspberry Pi XBMC. It isn’t perfect (yet) but then neither is Google TV.
That is exactly what i’m going to do with my raspberry pi when it turns up (should be in the next batch). I have been using xbmc on my mac and pc for a long time now and put off buying a mini pc when the raspberry pi was released.
Can’t wait!!
You planning on using Raspmc? Currently on RC3 and not found any issues yet.
Yep!! don’t normally get this exited but i can’t wait to get my hands on it. I love xbmc! it’s by far the best media software i have used ever. The ability to view movie information from imdb, download dvd artwork and view trailers, it is just fantasic.
I have most of my dvd’s on my nas drive now ready and waiting for this beauty
Any restrictions with the Pi? Fanart, 1080p etc?
£200! it’ll never sell at this price, if it includes an SSD or big flash drive then maybe, i’m sick of hearing the fans and hd spinning in my PS3 while trying to watch anything
If the rumours about the new xbox are true, I think I will stick with it as an all-in-one solution.
So can somebody explain what this thing is? If it’s a TV can I watch Freeview channels and the like on there? I get that it has apps on it, I just don’t get the TV part.