Google TV is to get annual upgrades, with the latest version due at the end of this year. This yearly refresh will include recommendations for better access to more content, and the word is that is could also include voice search capabilities. Google have announced that they are to upgrade their TV software by the end of 2012, adding fresh content and maintaining its scheduled annual upgrade.
The director of product management for Google TV, Rishi Chandra, has told Business Week at the CES 2012 show in Las Vegas that the company doesn’t intend to stop iterating, and that customers would see cool interactive stuff, and there would be some great things happening on the discovery experience and the recommendation engine.
Google TV is a Web TV platform that is Android based and allows consumes to both channel and web search. The software comes ready installed in Internet television, Sony Blu-ray players, and also on the Revue companion box from Logitech. The platform’s first version failed to make an impact and sales were poor, so Logitech stopped making their Revue systems.
Their second version, which is based on Android’s 3.1 Honeycomb is greatly improved, and offers over 150 apps from the Android Market that are tailored for Google TV’s. Google have said that after last years refresh, the activation rate doubled. CES has proved to be a hotbed of activity for Google TV, with Sony, LG and Vizio all showing off new Google TV systems, which range from TV’s to streaming media boxes to blu-ray players.
Marvell have also shown off their new Armada 1500 chipset, specially designed for Google TV. This is a 1.2GHz chipset that loads the Google software a lot faster than that the slower Intel Atom chipset could. Samsung, who are Google strongest partner in Android, are also launching a Google TV System later this year.
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