SatelliteGuys Review: Logitech Revue with GoogleTV – A Diamond in the Rough
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will it tell me there is an update automatically? I keep checking in the system about screen for it.
I wonder if it's like the normal market where it filters what you can see based on your device capabilities. Curious to see if you can push to it from market.android.com now?
-Mike
You can't yet, and the main issue is that many android apps use external arm libraries - of course, they will not work on the GTV, at least not without some type of emulator, which is apparently in the pipeline - but if a V2 does come out (hardware wise, that is), which will be arm - it will probably just get scrapped (emulator).
This weekend is the big UFC debut on FOX. And I noticed all the prelim fights will be aired on facebook and foxsports.com. Does anyone know if the fights will play on the Revue through it's web browser on either of those websites?
Well I just got home from work and took a look at foxsports.com on the revue. All the video I looked at seemed to play fine, so hopefully the fights Saturday night will be good also.
Found some information on this topic via a thread on the Logitech support forum.
What ever form the next hardware version of GoogleTV will take, Logitech will not be making it. This was in their quarterly report filed November 7th:
Logitech International, S.A. - Quarterly Report
Not surprising since the CEO who really backed GoogleTV left a month or so after initial release.
The last sentence, "However, we plan to take advantage of future peripheral opportunities around the Google TV platform as such opportunities arise", renders the previous sentence moot.
No, that means that they would look at making keyboards, remotes, and cameras for GoogleTV, but not any more set-top boxes.
It sounds like Logitech is just planning to sell off the rest of their inventory and then be done with the Revue. What does this mean for the future of the device? Can we still expect it to fully support Google TV 2.0 and all future apps, or will the Revue hardware be essentially abandoned in 2012?
Looks like anyone that bought this product gets HOSED again ! Once again I invested in the wrong tech.
Once Logitech is done with Honeycomb, really how much more do they need to do besides bug fixes? Google will keep the core apps updated via the market and developers will make cool apps for it. I don't feel like I've been "hosed" at all. I'm disappointed that Logitech won't be making anymore boxes cause I think it's a neat device. The fact that they are pairing up the Revue with their recently renamed Logitech Media Server software (formally called Squeezebox Server), gives me the impression that software support will still be around for a little while longer.
If Google ever moves on to porting ICE to GoogleTV... root and flash it just like you do your phone when the vendor stops pushing updates to that. That's the beauty of Android and the crazy people that build ROMs for it.
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Engadget has pictures of Samsung Google TV 3d Blue Ray player and stand alone Google TV box. These products will be a hit the question is should I get the player or the box? I hope these get released next month.
If you paid $299, yeah. But, if you paid $89-$99, you will easily get your money's worth. (Plus, $99 is hardly an "investment".)
