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I'm skeptical also. Do people really want a search driven TV experience? TV is the opposite of the Internet in many ways. I think people want content pushed at
by jsz0 16y ago
I'm skeptical also. Do people really want a search driven TV experience? TV is the opposite of the Internet in many ways. I think people want content pushed at them or presented in a buffet style interface. From the demo video Google TV looks to be very focused on search instead. The other thing that made me skeptical was Google presenting the problem of a program being on multiple channels. My cruddy cable DVR was able to figure this out years ago. TIVO has always done a very good job at it. What's the problem there?
- falien 16y agoMy problem with them is data entry, which google wants to let me take care of with my droid (and I'd love to). I have used search on a cable box exactly once because it was as much of a chore to enter the query and sort through the spectacularly awful search results as to scroll through all the channels trying to find what I wanted. And yet, every time I actually have something in mind I want to watch, I wish I could use an easy and decent search function. Then theres the possibility of hulu style "channels" which still give a buffet, but you get to stick to the sushi section of the buffet instead of having no discernible organization. Lots of what google is trying to do has been done poorly and in half-measures before. A good implementation with all of them together has a ton of potential.