Consuming media in the home is certainly not a new concept but with the addition of new technologies the task has changed quite a bit. Back about a decade or so the only way to watch a movie or TV show was to rent it, go to the movie theaters or get it through a broadcast. Today, there are so many different ways to grab content digitally that leaving your house is almost unheard of.
Popular services offering content via various digital distribution routes have been around for quite some time. In the video game world, we have services like Steam and Direct2Drive which allow you to download games straight from the cloud to your PC. On the flip side of things Netflix offers services for those looking to watch the latest movies or TV shows.
As we’ve told you in the past Netflix offers consumers mailed rentals along with via digital distribution through their Stream Instantly service.
This service features the ability to stream move and TV shows straight to a consumers PC but also to their television through hardware running the Netflix software. Many different hardware manufacturers have signed on board with Netflix software in tow such as Nintendo with their Wii, Microsoft with the Xbox 360 and more recently Apple with their Apple TV.
While Apple TV with its $99 price tag is a very highly sought after product, Google has their own competitor for the little black box. Appropriately named Google TV, this platform from the search engine giant allows consumers to search for web video, consume digital distributed media and much more.
Google TV also has their fair share of hardware partners such Logitech who we told you about before with their Revue set-top box. However, they have also previously announced Sony to be their partner who have said they are working on a Google TV powered television.
We haven’t heard much of the product since but Sony has begun sending out invites for an event on October 12th where they will announce “The World’s First Internet Television”. While it’s assumed that this will just be a Sony TV running Google TV we’ll have to see how the company integrates the two into a marketable product.
Check back around then and we’ll keep you posted.
Popular services offering content via various digital distribution routes have been around for quite some time. In the video game world, we have services like Steam and Direct2Drive which allow you to download games straight from the cloud to your PC. On the flip side of things Netflix offers services for those looking to watch the latest movies or TV shows.
As we’ve told you in the past Netflix offers consumers mailed rentals along with via digital distribution through their Stream Instantly service.
This service features the ability to stream move and TV shows straight to a consumers PC but also to their television through hardware running the Netflix software. Many different hardware manufacturers have signed on board with Netflix software in tow such as Nintendo with their Wii, Microsoft with the Xbox 360 and more recently Apple with their Apple TV.
While Apple TV with its $99 price tag is a very highly sought after product, Google has their own competitor for the little black box. Appropriately named Google TV, this platform from the search engine giant allows consumers to search for web video, consume digital distributed media and much more.
Google TV also has their fair share of hardware partners such Logitech who we told you about before with their Revue set-top box. However, they have also previously announced Sony to be their partner who have said they are working on a Google TV powered television.
We haven’t heard much of the product since but Sony has begun sending out invites for an event on October 12th where they will announce “The World’s First Internet Television”. While it’s assumed that this will just be a Sony TV running Google TV we’ll have to see how the company integrates the two into a marketable product.
Check back around then and we’ll keep you posted.
