Logitech Revue (Google TV): photos

by ZDNet Author | October 27, 2010 4:00pm PDT | Image 1 of 23

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When we first saw the Logitech Revue demos, we were sold on the idea of a single set-top box that could search all our content sources--online or offline--and control our home theater components. Now that we've had our hands on a unit for nearly a week, we still love the concept, and the Revue has an undeniable amount of potential, but it's hard to give it an unqualified recommendation with all of its current issues and caveats.

As of press time, major content providers such as Hulu, CBS, and ABC are all blocking Google TV devices from streaming video content. Google TV's omnipresent search bar is an excellent way to find content across so many different online video sources, but it currently doesn't search titles available through Netflix, arguably the most important. There aren't many apps, and the existing Netflix app is about two generations behind those for competitors such as Roku and Sony's PS3.

Google's vision for complete unfettered access to the Web in the living room is powerful, and Logitech's Revue impressively well-thought-out for a debut product, but ultimately the software needs more polish and more content deals to compete with increasingly mature competitors like Apple TV, Roku XDS and even the PS3 Slim.

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RE: Logitech Revue (Google TV): photos

Joe1DISH 7th Mar 2011

Finally Google TV has arrived. I was so excited when Google TV came out I like the product. I work at DISH Network so I had the chance to use it and see how it operated I loved it. I bought one as soon as they were avail and I can?t live without it now.

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There is nothing mature and competitive about Apple, Roku or PS3 Slim

kaneb80 28th Oct 2010

Google TV will sell. Just watch (literally).

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Net Neutrality 2.0

klockheed 29th Oct 2010

There needs to be an uproar over content providers preventing folks with specific devices from accessing their content. The GoogleTV is truly no different than any other Internet-connected PC or HTPC only more specially designed. Both run an OS, both run browsers, both are simply computers.
Did Hulu make a deal with Intel or Microsoft to allow their products to access Hulu content? Probably not. How about ASUS, the maker of my laptop? I seriously doubt it. Why then is Hulu preventing these specialized-PCs from accessing their content? Sure, it's their content and they can do with it what they want, but the fact that they're barring GoogleTV owners from their content until Google coughs up cash is akin to extorting some rich guy to use services everyone else gets for free... oh yeah... that's called taxes. This is a glimpse of the world in a post-net-neutrality era.