Google TV launched to high expectations a couple of months back. Users have slowly come to terms with the capabilities of the software as well as the underlying hardware platform. Without doubt, the Logitech Revue was the flagship product for Google TV at launch. However, many of its users are finding it hard to justify a dedicated device for just the functionality provided by Google TV. A detailed review of the Revue will follow in the coming weeks, but the unanimous opinion amongst the editors at AnandTech is that Google TV could only be justified as a value add-on for already existing CE devices in a HT setup such as a TV, Blu-Ray player, media streamer or even an AV receiver.

Sony was one of the first companies to jump onto the Google TV bandwagon, and they debuted some TVs and even a Blu-Ray player with Google TV inbuilt around the same time as the launch of the Logitech Revue. We have had the Sony NSZ-GT1 Blu-Ray player with Google TV in our labs for the past couple of weeks. Read on for our findings about the player.

The 2010 Google I/O Developer Conference concluded last week in San Francisco. Of the multitude of announcements made, there were three important developments from a consumer perspective. These include

1. Announcement of Android 2.2, codenamed Froyo
2. Open sourcing the VP8 codec from On2, and creation of the WebM container
3. Google TV expected to launch in Fall 2010

While Android is continuing its march towards dominating the smartphone market (as well as the tablet space), there really wasn't that much to make the general public excited about in the announcement of a new version. What made waves and generated heated debate were the Google TV and VP8 announcements. Read on the find out Anandtech's take on these two topics.