Logitech Revue: Now $99.99

When Google announced the “Google TV” back at Google IO 2010 the internet was all in a storm talking about “the future of television”. The idea is that now you only need two boxes not three… or something of that sort. The problem with the product was its adoption rate. The devices were hideously overpriced for the average consumer, the Logitech Revue was $300, while TVs enabled with the service were in the $600-$1400 price range.

So why report about this now? Well Logitech realized that the product was not doing so well at a $299.99 price point so they drop that sucker to a smooth $99.99. Something that most everyone can handle. This puts the product in direct competition with the Apple TV and the Roku boxes.

Your setup would be as follows:

• Cable/Satellite Box - For all of your subscribed channels.
  • The idea is that your cable box will be the device that houses all of your TV content from your service producer. IE. Roadrunner, ATnT, ect.. It then aggregates all the information from that to your Google TV.
    • This gets around that whole pesky “cable card” debacle.
  • So if you search for “True Blood”, it will show you listings and times on your cable box, along with related videos from YouTube, Webpages, Netflix and so on.
• Google TV – For anything on the internet… ANYTHING*! (*Not really)

What can it do?

• Netflix
• Amazon Streaming
• Pandora
• Napster
• Google Chrome
• CNBC
• NBA
• Twitter
• Many webpages such as “Vimeo” or “Adult Swim” now have TV friendly versions. Here are other “Spotlight” sites.

Apps:

Google TV has the ability to have apps built for the platform just like your iPhone or Android device. The apps are delivered through the Android Marketplace. Sometime in the near future the Google TV should be running Honeycomb (the current version of Android 3.0-3.2).

Remote App:

The remote app demolishes the pants out of the Apple TV remote app. You can do things that are similar to “AirPlay” with the Google TV Remote App.

Queue:

You can subscribe to webpages, shows, and YouTube channels through you Queue. This means that when the subscription source updates itself with new content it goes right into your Queue. I would hope that Netflix is also able to be thrown into this queue. It’s nice to have a central hub for all the things that you want to watch as opposed to going to six different sources to find something new.

All in all the Logitech Revue is a great competitor to the other boxes in the $100 price range. So if you happen to be an Android lover then the Revue should be right up your alley.

Google TV Official Site

Logitech Revue Official Site