From the Official Google Blog this morning:
Brad Stone of the New York Times just finished live blogging the discussion from Google’s conference in SF, where the crucial question of, “Neat-o, but how much will this cost me?” has apparently been left unanswered:
No one is talking prices here. That will be key. A companion box from Logitech priced at more than $100 would really be a nonstarter, and shoppers are quite sensitive about prices on high-definition TVs, so we’ll start looking into how much cost those high-speed Intel chips will add to Sony’s new TVs. Also interesting: whether Google can get other TV makers (LG, Samsung) on stage with Sir Howard next time.
Ah, the day that I can finally say, “Suck it, Comcast” is approaching fast.
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“What will it cost?” For sure. But also, please don’t let it suck ass like WebTV (http://www.webtv.com/pc/)
Or AppleTV.
@JackAttack
Western Digital HD Media Player
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.as…
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PlayOn running on your home PC/media server
http://www.playon.tv/playon
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PlayOn scripts
http://www.playonscripts.com/
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Something even my wife can operate. goodbye Comcast.
We canceled our Comcast last year. Still fully entertained at all hours.
@Jack: We ditched comcast a year ago.
Playon blows too on a big screen.
Netflix streamed through the wii however, is awesome, and you can easily hook up a good laptop to the TV for most other things.
The biggest problem is HD sports that aren’t on network TV. Right now, you’ve got to suck it up and either have friends with cable, or go to a bar. Both are nice ways to get out of the house, but I’ll still be watching for any solution that fixes that glaring problem. (I get pretty good quality from the online-MLB package, that even looks pretty good on a big screen, but it just isn’t cable HD quality.)
Thanks CC and McAngryPants.
@ McAngryPants specifically: Totally off-topic but…are you hiring network admin/MS syseng’s where you’re at?
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@Jack…only if they kill me off first. sorry bubba.
*looks over shoulder to see if HR is coming*
Word just checkin’. Same here. That’s why I’m looking.
imagine how much we could get done if it wasn’t for this blog. *sigh* 🙂
It looks like Google is trying to do a lot of the same thing that Boxee (http://www.boxee.tv ) has already been doing for years. However, Boxee will also run on most PCs (Apple/ MS / Linux). so you won’t need to buy new hardware just to use it. It’s too bad that Google’s announcement will lessen the impact that D-Link was planning on next month when they release the first Boxee set top box.