Google TV ready for UK launch, with help from Sony
Together with Sony, Google is bringing its Google TV service to the UK. A set-top box made by Sony called the Sony NSZ-GS7 will let users browse the web through their television, access on-demand entertainment services such as Netflix, and use Android applications when it launches this July. A Blu-ray version will also follow. More details, this way…
Sony announced the arrival of Google TV as key feature of its NSZ-GS7 Internet Player, due to arrive in stores this July, at a cost of £200. Sony says it will offer the “freedom of the web on the big screen” by being able to browse the internet using Google’s Google Chrome web browser.
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Google TV will let users access sites such as YouTube at the touch of a button, browse photo-sharing websites such as Flickr, and stay in touch with friends via Facebook from their HD television, as users are able to access their favourite websites. There will be on-demand content, too, with access to entertainment and movie services such as Netflix.
The Sony NSZ-GS7 includes a dual-sided remote with a touchpad for navigating menus, skimming through email, and activating the services on offer, including voice search. If you’ve got an Android smartphone, you’ll be able to use that as a controller too, with a free Media Remote app.
In addition to the NSZ-GS7, Sony will also launch an Internet Blu-ray disc player with Google TV called the NSZ-GP9, out this October for £280.
The arrival of Google TV to the UK comes as we begin to hear rumours of an Apple TV. Not the set-top box we already know of, but an LCD Apple television set that is reportedly ready to go into production.
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