Tim Stevens posted on Nov 22 2010 6: 56 AM
: there are high hopes that Google TV will evolve into something magical and wonderful over the next year or so as its namesake adds applications and features of flesh out the platform of dubious current state. Today, though, just a little less attractive thanks to a move from Viacom to block the full episodes from streaming on your Revues Logitech Internet TV and Sony and the like. We have confirmed with our Revue that attempt to episodes streaming from network sites such as MTV, Nickelodeon, and Comedy Central show messages like "this content is not available for your device," which is a change unhappy and frustrating. Yes, the user agent tweak still works, but it would be nice if we could all just going to have? Surely Google is still working on its content partnership agreements and hopefully things will improve in the future, but given how friendly the past reports of the company with Viacom were that we are not optimistic on this front in particular.
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: content provider might ban Google TV left, right and centre but hardware partners don't seem to lose any enthusiasm. After Samsung openly admitted to contemplate a HDTV with Google TV hardware and software built right, Toshiba and Vizio are now said to have intention to introduce new products at CES in January of 2011. While neither manufacturer would be drawn in confirming this last bit of inside information, Toshiba GM American Jeff Barney, is quoted as saying: "Google certainly is for us a key partner PC side and will probably be the key for us TV side as well." Otherwise how could experience Google as a partner function key TV that with its connection web TV?