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I completely agree with that, too. Like what were they thinking? I won't even go into explaining why that's such a bad idea, because I think it's obvious to mos

I completely agree with that, too. Like what were they thinking? I won't even go into explaining why that's such a bad idea, because I think it's obvious to most people that was a stupid idea. They have Google Voice Search, and they didn't even use it for Google TV. They could use that for saying commands and doing the searches on Google by speaking to it.. But I don't even think that should be the main way to interact with Google TV. I know they've been working on Kinect-like stuff for Android and that they hired I believe the former tech lead from Kinect, so I think they should be using Kinect-like technology to allow you to use the Google TV interface with your hands. Would those 2 be the perfect interaction models for Google TV? I don't know. But I think it sounds a whole lot better than using a full QWERTY keyboard. I think the lack of content hurt Google TV, too. Did they even have Netflix at launch? I think they didn't. I know Hulu is up for sale. It might be a good idea to buy them. I also think video chatting on TV is pretty revolutionary and might be a huge thing in the future, so they should take advantage of that with GTalk. The only problem I see here is that people will have to buy cameras for their TV's, too, so adoption for that might be a little slow, but it would get there.

mikeryan 15y ago
Hulu is not up for sale, Yahoo may have made an unsolicited offer. Hulu also does not have long term content deals (which are their only real asset). Right now Hulu is mostly owned by the content owners which is why it gets content at all, if Google bought it a lot of the quality content they currently have would very likely go away. I do know that there are a bunch of people playing with the Kinect controller for navigating TV but I think you'll see this with a future Xbox rev first. Microsoft has TV platforms in the past (Media Center and traditional cable style guides etc). I think its much more likely to see this type of innovation come from MS in the Xbox, since they can do a lot of this with software and already have millions of boxes already hooked up in peoples living rooms.
johnyzee 15y ago
> I also think video chatting on TV is pretty revolutionary and might be a huge thing in the future, so they should take advantage of that with GTalk. The only problem I see here is that people will have to buy cameras for their TV's, too, so adoption for that might be a little slow, but it would get there. I just bought the add-on camera for my Sony flatscreen, which has a Skype application built in. It is in fact a very convenient way to video chat, compared with using a laptop. I am sure cams will be built into the TVs from the next generation or two.

mikeryan 15y ago

Hulu is not up for sale, Yahoo may have made an unsolicited offer. Hulu also does not have long term content deals (which are their only real asset). Right now Hulu is mostly owned by the content owners which is why it gets content at all, if Google bought it a lot of the quality content they currently have would very likely go away. I do know that there are a bunch of people playing with the Kinect controller for navigating TV but I think you'll see this with a future Xbox rev first. Microsoft has TV platforms in the past (Media Center and traditional cable style guides etc). I think its much more likely to see this type of innovation come from MS in the Xbox, since they can do a lot of this with software and already have millions of boxes already hooked up in peoples living rooms.

johnyzee 15y ago

> I also think video chatting on TV is pretty revolutionary and might be a huge thing in the future, so they should take advantage of that with GTalk. The only problem I see here is that people will have to buy cameras for their TV's, too, so adoption for that might be a little slow, but it would get there. I just bought the add-on camera for my Sony flatscreen, which has a Skype application built in. It is in fact a very convenient way to video chat, compared with using a laptop. I am sure cams will be built into the TVs from the next generation or two.