Google TV: No Need to Tune In Just Yet | Walt Mossberg | Personal Technology | AllThingsD

Google TV: No Need to Tune In Just Yet | Walt Mossberg | Personal Technology | AllThingsD
Google TV: No Need to Tune In Just Yet
November 17, 2010
by Walter S. Mossberg

SharePrint The quest to bring the full range of Internet video to your TV in a simple way continues, but it isn’t going well. The latest team to try—Google, Logitech and Sony—has made an admirably bold effort, but, like others before, it has missed the mark, at least in its first effort.



Google TV—software built into hardware made by Logitech and Sony—is very different from competing products, such as Apple TV and Roku. Unlike the others, it aims to merge Web video and regular TV in one simple interface, via one box, with one easily usable controller. Also, unlike the others, it isn’t limited to just customized channels that bring specific Web-video services to the screen. It lets you browse to almost any website with video, and play it on the TV.

But, for now, I’d relegate Google TV to the category of a geek product, not a mainstream, easy solution ready for average users. It’s too complicated, in my view, and some of its functions fall short.