Continuation - Part 2
So to carry forward from where i last left. Hmmm....what else.
Realistically, not everyone will be able to afford the Google TV Table with 10 TB HDD and built it mini screen touch screen etc. So for them a scaled down version with 1 TB HDD the size of a normal STB can be made. But it still needs to go beyond the internet connectivity that is currently offered by PS3, XBOX, DVRs and other TV attachments.
For one thing it won't require any TV tuner card which is such an annoying requirements of computers today to display TV from cable. So the Google TV Mini will be a computer that is TV ready. Any screen the user has will connect to it. Requiring a wifi router also seems like an unnecessary requirement today. So the box will be a router too as most households have only one net cable connection which needs to be shared with other wifi-mobiles and notebooks and netbooks. A house with Google TV Mini would neither feel the need to have a non wifi desktop nor will be able to afford one for lack of space and money. And since the device itself is a desktop computer why have another one. An exchange scheme would be most necessary where customers can hand over their desktops and get a major discount on the Google TV Mini box. The Mini will have a Blu Ray player/writer, a web cam for sure. It will have bluetooth, wifi, and many different types of jacks for connecting various cables from various devices - 3.5 audio jack, 5.1 and 7.1 home theatre jacks, net jack, hdmi, s-video, usb, mini usb, card readers, etc
The most important thing would be the software. It's boot time would need to be much smaller. Asus Express Boot is a good example. Users can decide on a screen that loads in a few seconds whether they want to play games, watch movies, use skype, watch tv, use video conferenceing or boot up the computer. It should be compatible with any kind of wireless input device such as keyboard, mice, stylus pen pad, joysticks. And it should automatically detect the kind of device that is being plugged in and it should download the required driver immediately. No more installing the drivers from the device official CD, that is such an epic fail.
One thing that pisses PC gamers is the number of different errors that can pop up because of directX not being the updated version or the display driver or the sound driver blah blah. This is where console gaming scores above PC gaming. Since the config is same in all consoles all the software works flawlessly. This is highly required in the OS or software that will run Google TV Ultimate or Google TV Mini. Glitches should not occur anymore. The device needs to be intelligent and find out what software/driver is required to be installed and do it on its own. It is so mechanical to search about these errors through Google searches and Forums browsing. The intelligent software for Google will be supported by a huge army of human support staff who will monitor driver requirement and other errors in real time and do it remotely for users awithout even asked. Slowly they will weed out almost all the common errors and then this staff can be reduced to a bare minimum.
Realistically, not everyone will be able to afford the Google TV Table with 10 TB HDD and built it mini screen touch screen etc. So for them a scaled down version with 1 TB HDD the size of a normal STB can be made. But it still needs to go beyond the internet connectivity that is currently offered by PS3, XBOX, DVRs and other TV attachments.
For one thing it won't require any TV tuner card which is such an annoying requirements of computers today to display TV from cable. So the Google TV Mini will be a computer that is TV ready. Any screen the user has will connect to it. Requiring a wifi router also seems like an unnecessary requirement today. So the box will be a router too as most households have only one net cable connection which needs to be shared with other wifi-mobiles and notebooks and netbooks. A house with Google TV Mini would neither feel the need to have a non wifi desktop nor will be able to afford one for lack of space and money. And since the device itself is a desktop computer why have another one. An exchange scheme would be most necessary where customers can hand over their desktops and get a major discount on the Google TV Mini box. The Mini will have a Blu Ray player/writer, a web cam for sure. It will have bluetooth, wifi, and many different types of jacks for connecting various cables from various devices - 3.5 audio jack, 5.1 and 7.1 home theatre jacks, net jack, hdmi, s-video, usb, mini usb, card readers, etc
The most important thing would be the software. It's boot time would need to be much smaller. Asus Express Boot is a good example. Users can decide on a screen that loads in a few seconds whether they want to play games, watch movies, use skype, watch tv, use video conferenceing or boot up the computer. It should be compatible with any kind of wireless input device such as keyboard, mice, stylus pen pad, joysticks. And it should automatically detect the kind of device that is being plugged in and it should download the required driver immediately. No more installing the drivers from the device official CD, that is such an epic fail.
One thing that pisses PC gamers is the number of different errors that can pop up because of directX not being the updated version or the display driver or the sound driver blah blah. This is where console gaming scores above PC gaming. Since the config is same in all consoles all the software works flawlessly. This is highly required in the OS or software that will run Google TV Ultimate or Google TV Mini. Glitches should not occur anymore. The device needs to be intelligent and find out what software/driver is required to be installed and do it on its own. It is so mechanical to search about these errors through Google searches and Forums browsing. The intelligent software for Google will be supported by a huge army of human support staff who will monitor driver requirement and other errors in real time and do it remotely for users awithout even asked. Slowly they will weed out almost all the common errors and then this staff can be reduced to a bare minimum.
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