Posts Tagged ‘Web TV’

Samsung, one of the premiere makers of LCD, LED and Plasma televisions, is reportedly pondering whether to build televisions that use the Google Android operating system. This is the Google dream, to get their Android operating system to become a spinal cord for web connected televisions around the world, and was part of their recent announcement of Google TV. The problem is that there isn’t a whole lot of detail on exactly how some elements of the new service will work. Some of the features seem to require typing, and unless Samsung is shipping LCD TVs with a wireless keyboard, it’ll probably end up awkward and unused. We take a look at the possibilities after the jump.

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How important will Facebook and Google be in the future of Social and Connected TV?  The report by Futurescape, entitled <takes a deep breath> Social TV: How Facebook, Twitter and connected television transform global TV advertising, pay-TV, EPGs and broadcasting, details how these technologies, and specifically, their battle for a user’s social graph, will deeply affect the way that we watch and monetize television in the future.

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Years from now, children will look back at us in 2010 and wonder why we were browsing the web on small laptop screens when we had massive televisions and sound systems available in our living room. Perhaps those same children will wonder what it was like before “Smart TV”. Smart TV is a new service from Intel, Google and Sony that brings the web to our television sets, and if the rumors are true, is likely being announced in a few days at the Google I/O conference. What is this service about, and what does it mean for the future of television and the web?

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