Demo of Google TV (Skip to 32:00) [video]

Re:Demo of Google TV (Skip to 32:00) [video] by alanh on Wednesday September 08, 2010 @01:38AM (#1671135)

"Soon, you won't want to buy a TV without a browser." Hello, WebTV of 1995…

Love the browser demo; you can’t read a single word shown on-screen. Massive UI fail in trusting normal websites to be TV-friendly! This is why AppleTV has had its own YouTube browser for years now. Heck, the Google TV demonstrator has to manually start fullscreen mode on YouTube. She mentions LeanBack as an alternative UI, and describes it as "intuitive." Have you tried it? I have. I couldn’t figure it out. It is exactly the opposite of intuitive.

Edit: Irrelevant comment: The demo starts with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, a terrible movie based off a great book? Interesting Google chose an antithesis of (Jobs-founded) Pixar for their demo.

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Re:Demo of Google TV (Skip to 32:00) [video] by lukesandberg on Wednesday September 08, 2010 @02:09AM (#1671192)

huh, I thought that Cloudy with a chance of meatballs was awesome. seeing the clip made me want to watch it again.

true, it had little to do with the book, but i don't fault it for that.

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