SatelliteGuys Review: Logitech Revue with GoogleTV – A Diamond in the Rough

[llzel]

Scott thanks for the review. It did move me closer to getting a mac mini. But I'm holding off now for the Boxee box review. I'm a little disappointed with the Google TV.

Do you think Sony's version is the same?

[Frank Jr.]

Thanks Scott for the review. I like it but I think my dsl speed is going to have to improve. My 6.0 just won't cut the mustard. I am downloading a movie from Dish right now that is HD. It said it will take over 3 hrs. Yikes!

[Mike_H]

Thanks Scott for the review. I like it but I think my dsl speed is going to have to improve. My 6.0 just won't cut the mustard. I am downloading a movie from Dish right now that is HD. It said it will take over 3 hrs. Yikes!

That is dish taking forever to download. Their servers are slower than dirt at serving stuff up. I could get HD streaming from Hulu and NBC and pretty much everyone with a 3Mbit DSL connection. It's the encoders and decoders that can make or break streaming video. Many sites use Flash, and my guess is that the video chip in the Revue supports hardware flash decoding.

[Scott Greczkowski]

Scott thanks for the review. It did move me closer to getting a mac mini. But I'm holding off now for the Boxee box review. I'm a little disappointed with the Google TV.

Do you think Sony's version is the same?

I have a Boxee Box on its way to me in November. I too am looking for one box to replace everything. At the moment I have Vudu, WDTV Live Plus, Roku HD, PlayOn, Internet enable Sony 3D Bluray Player, Internet enabled Panasonic 3DTV, streaming via PlayOn. Im my bedroom alone I have 6 different devices I can watch Netflix on.

As far as Sony's goes, the Bluray player for some reason takes the HDMI with 5.1 surround sound and downmixes it to stereo. While the Logitech Revue can passthrough the 5.1 surround (or if its 7.1 surround it downmixes it to 5.1) which I feel is MUCH better then Sony. From the pics I have seen the Sony software looks a lot like the Revue software... which I guess is the GoogleTV software in the big scope of things.

[Hemi 6.1]

Sounds like old webtv to me. !

I was thinking the exact same thing.

[KimmiKat]

+1 I noticed that too when I played with one at Worst Buy. Needs a lot of work still.

Sounds like old webtv to me. I 'll pass for now, but thanks for the review Scott. You probably saved a lot of us from making the mistake of being beta testers for this box. I already made that mistake with the 922 and the 922 just this last week became more user friendly after 6 months of using it and external hard drive archiving at last!

[tomcrown1]

Scott I went to best buy to try the google box again the picture looked really pixalated. Most of the folks left thinking that this is a piece of krap. The google rep looked dumb founded I do not think he knows how to work the box.

I have heard that this Thursday dish will take orders for the revue box for the 722, 722k and 622 owners only. The 922 is out of luck. I also heard it is a one year commitment to the $4.00 integration fees.

Scott did you get any word on when the 922 will integrate with the revue or if sales are bad dish will drop this?

[myron243]

As far as Sony's goes, the Bluray player for some reason takes the HDMI with 5.1 surround sound and downmixes it to stereo. While the Logitech Revue can passthrough the 5.1 surround (or if its 7.1 surround it downmixes it to 5.1) which I feel is MUCH better then Sony. From the pics I have seen the Sony software looks a lot like the Revue software... which I guess is the GoogleTV software in the big scope of things.

I checked on my Onkyo to see what it was getting from the Revue and it showed PCM-7.1-48hz

[meStevo]

My Denon says Multi-Ch, haven't really messed with it much because everything sounds great.

[DustoMan]

From Omar over at the Logitech Forums:

Revue can receive either PCM Stereo or AC3 5.1 from an HDMI input source. Assuming Revue is connected to an AVR and the AVR is configured correctly (this changes from brand to brand), Revue, can output following audio formats.

HDMI HDMI
(PCM/AC-3 5.1) Source Device ----> Revue ----> AVR - Either PCM Stereo and PCM 7.1/5.1 are output

HDMI SPDIF
(PCM/AC-3 5.1)Source Device ----> Revue ----> AVR - Either PCM Stereo and AC-3 5.1 are output
Revue always mixes incoming audio with internal audio sounds, even in cases where you are using a supported audio modes (see above), Revue will never pass the Audio as is (untouched) to the AVR.

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