amcluesent;550237 Wrote: > So, some thoughts - > > 1) IPTV in England will be dominated by Project Canvas which will get > loads of free advertising from the BBC. Massive barrier to entry for > Google TV. > > 2) Google and Logitech appear, IMHO, to be interested in completely > different market segments. With the Nexus phone, Google want to appeal > to hackers and tweakers, Logitech is main stream. > > 3) At the end of the day, once next-gen Atom CPU appear in devices like > Asus netbook with Windows 7 Media Centre, these 'walled garden' IPTV > boxes will dead in the water
1) I'm interested in how Google TV and Project Canvas progress and whether there would be any chance of convergence. That would be the ideal for me at the moment although I know Project Canvas is very prescriptive over every area of content and UI. Hopefully the Google platform will be relatively open and allow plugins which could provide this functionality and hopefully boxes with PVR functionality. The BBC are pretty good/have to be good about supporting different platforms for iPlayer so I'm hopeful they would do something with this. 2) I'm not 100% sold on the Google for hackers/Logitech main stream argument. Android phones are pretty mainstream, and pretty much everyone uses a number of Google products. Squeezebox is not really that mainstream, or even Harmony etc. Sure people have their peripherals but I don't know that makes them that mainstream. I expect to be proven wrong ;) 3) Lets hope so, but MS can be pretty restrictive too. -- robroe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ robroe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14248 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79007 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
