Engadget Reviews Google TV review

Engadget has a nice in-depth review of the new Google TV platform. They dive into the details of the device and it does look a bit clunky but it does have promise. I could see it following the Android story with lots of manufactures bringing out there own devices based on Google TV and all looing slightly different. As we all know WAF is very important and this could be an area that Google TV struggles with in the early days (Checkout Microsoft’s Charlie Owen talking about Google TV on this weeks podcast)

Full review at Engadget.com

The problem, of course, is that it’s really execution that counts, and little else. By that much more exacting standard, Google TV feels like an incomplete jumble of good ideas only half-realized, an unoptimized box of possibility that suffers under the weight of its own ambition and seemingly rushed holiday deadline. Had Google simply focused on a few key features — lightning-fast browsing and perfect search results, for example — we’d have readily excused the missing pieces with the assumption that they’d soon arrive in an equally polished way. Indeed, the most disappointing thing about Google TV is the immediate realization that it could be so much more if only Google given itself some more time. An integrated DVR, a real program guide, a movable PIP window that opens quickly — all these things must happen for Google TV to be successful. We’re already hearing reports that Google’s in talks with cable operators to build integrated Google TV set-top boxes, so perhaps the most difficult hurdle will soon be passed, but until Google TV’s sluggish performance and general lack of polish are addressed, it will remain just as niche as the HTPCs from which it sprang.