Google, Sony, Logitech and Intel Expanding To Internet-Connected HDTV

Google, Intel, Sony, and Logitech are working together on a new agreement that Google and bring new HDTV set-top box. As we reported last week that Google wanted to Dish Network set-top box, the contract with Sony seems to be much larger. When the Google-enabled HDTV on the market will be running for users to be able to web applications from the TV.

This is not an entirely new concept. Several TV manufacturers have begun this, and Yahoo provided “Yahoo Connected TV” for some time, connect the Ethernet can run HDTV on the web applications of Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Logitech has been asked to participate in the project because of the history with their powerful universal remote controls, and are used as the construction of a QWERTY keyboard, with remote control for Google TV-enabled devices. It is assumed that Sony would have produced the current TV series, while Intel could produce internal operations for Google TV.

The New York Times reported that it received the beginning of the experiment, their Google Android-bases in several markets. enabled meters in the hope that Google TV HDTV-capable not only compete with Yahoo Internet, HDTV, but also with Roku devices and Boxee Media Center.