Google TV at present has as a minimum one real retail creation firmed up the Logitech Revue scheduled to distribute this fall.

This is a set-top box that's imaginary to bring the Google TV experience to your obtainable home entertainment center.

Up to now so good except I'd like to understand how this is going to occur. Oh, I get how one box could be clever to search equally TV listings and the internet for content. I'm more puzzled by how ‘control' feature will work.

You're imaginary to be clever to utilize your smartphone to manage your home activity center.

In a video give by Engadget HD, you be able to see that it uses Logitech's Harmony technology to start components, put inputs and so on. I appreciate how a real Harmony remote is going to perform this; it has an IR emitter finally.

But how is Logitech Revue going to achieve this. I contain this terrifying vision of a web of IR Blasters running from Revue box to every component of my home theater.

That was difficult sufficient when I did it to permit my TiVo to control my cable box. Decided newer cable boxes can currently be controlled by cable cards, but that doesn't assist with my handset, TV, sub-woofer, etc.

Google is annoying to initiate a creation that no one actually recognizes they desire; the price wants to be kept low.

As well, at the end of the day Google TV isn't doing anything we can't previously do pretentious you have few types of box linked to the TV that has a web browser, for example a Sony PS3 or a Nintendo Wii it's just meeting functions into one place.