Sony HDTVs To Come With Google TV Interface

adeelarshad82 writes "Even though Google recently announced its own Google TV, seems like their partnership with Sony is going to make it obsolete. Google has partnered up with Sony to launch four HDTVs loaded with the Google TV interface, as well as a Google TV Blu-ray player. The company's Google TV products will be called Sony Internet TV. With the Google TV, Sony aims to provide a clean and easy way to browse the Web, watch TV, and run applications all on your HDTV. Google TV uses the true Chrome Web browser with Flash 10.1. Unfortunately though, at the moment it only has a handful of apps available but Sony said the OS will be updated in early 2011 to include the Android Market app with more options."

take that steve jobs

[alen]

i predict google TV will be integrated into most TV's in the next 3-5 years which means every TV will soon ship with Flash

no need to fire up the computer for the porn tube sites

Will it come pre-rooted?

[TheWoozle]

All I want to know is if my new Sony TV will come with a free root kit pre-installed at the factory?

Re:4 USB ports?

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck it, we're doing 5 ports.

Re:Terrible summary.

[geekoid]

He wasn't being a jackass, he was being a moron.

Did the post-er have any idea what Google TV is?

[RapmasterT]

I get the impression from the synopsis that the author doesn't know that Google TV and Sony Ineternet TV are the same thing? I'm not sure how Google TV is going to make Google TV obsolete, but it's sure a head scratcher.

that being said, this is a horrid idea that has been tried time and time again. Nobody wants an expensive all-in-one device when individual components are typically less expensive and give better results over time. This Sony TV will be fine, until the first Google TV software update that it can't support, then it's a TV with a dead component inside. Kind of like one of those people who have a dead fetus twin inside them their whole lives until they have a cyst removed that turns out to have hair and a face.

Is THAT what you want in your TV? Is it?

Re:Terrible summary.

[onkelonkel]

The editors are undoubtedly volunteers. Or possibly they got their jobs through some sort of "hire the mentally challenged" program. If they were regular employees they would have all been fired 10 times by now.

When will a TV just Come With a built-in PC?

[El Fantasmo]

I'm just waiting for a TV to come with a fully functional, unrestricted and networkable PC built in that uses standard parts and interfaces and is linked to one of the TV inputs.

Re:In soviet russia...

[srussia]

the TV Programs YOU !

Russian mindhacker Yakov Smirnoff injected this meme once using the rootkit. It is still endemic in certain segments of the population.