Thursday, February 10, 2011

Google TV

Mashups. They are all the rage lately. I don't mean audio mashups (although DC101's Flounder's Mashups is a favorite of mine) or social networking mashups (every site seems to have 20 cross-post buttons now). Here's what I'm talking about: DVD players have network connections now, to stream Netflix for example, and hopefully firmware updates too. Laptops have bluetooth now (I still haven't come up with a use for it on my Macbook Pro- isn't a bluetooth mouse overkill?).

Here's my question though- they are starting to put intelligence into TV sets- does anyone own a TV that's more than just a TV? You know, it has a brain that can do more than take in HDMI and display 1080p? For example, the TVs that will play Google TV? If so- I want to hear all about it. Educate me- and feel free to review your setup with pro-your-model and anti-everyone-else's-model zeal as you explain it to me.

And yes, I know that when the day of reckoning comes, I will be punished for my overuse of parentheses. I just like micro-digression, I suppose. At least it will be offset by my desire to always spell correctly and use the apostrophe properly.
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2 comments:

Unknown said...

When I first started back at College Park, my original thought of the "bluetooth" laptop phenomenon was to connect my bluetooth headset to the computer, either for listening to audio, or perhaps for the microphone functions (Skype maybe?)
No other thoughts though.

February 10, 2011 at 5:13 AM
ferdmack said...

I thought that too- wondering if I could use my bluetooth headset from the car with my laptop for Skype. So far, that doesn't seem to be an option, although I've only spent two minutes trying to get it to work.

February 10, 2011 at 11:01 AM

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