Is Google TV testing Larry Page's patience? With his renewed focus on streamlining Google's product roster, this news surely isn't going over well in Mountain View: Logitech has reported that its Logitech Revue console had more units returned than sold in the company's latest financial quarter (Q1 2012). Ouch. As a result, Logitech says it'll cut the unit's price from $249.99 to $99. The Revue has already had one price cut; it was $300 when launched late last year and dropped to $250 recently due to slow sales. In its prepared financial remarks (PDF, shared by GigaOM), Logitech says i [...]

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Google TV, the company's much-hyped "Connected TV" effort that brought together Sony, Logitech and Dish Networks, has failed to deliver on its promise -- at least so far. While sales figures haven't been released the public isn't biting, it would appear. Google TV (the product) may ultimately join the ranks of Google Wave as an ambitious failure. However it's still a bit premature to call it that. Regardless the news yesterday that YouTube is planning to spend $100 million or more on new and original content and that it will lease almost 14,000 square feet of new office space in Beverly [...]

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Google is encouraging TV show owners/providers to begin tagging their online videos with several new fields that can be used in both video sitemaps and mRSS feeds. The new fields include specific data for identifying the show/series title, season and episode numbers, premiere date and more. Google's blog post explains and shows the correct code in more detail. Interestingly, that blog post also begins by saying the new fields should be used "if your website is the authoritative source for the video of a particular TV show." But there's nothing stopping other sites that post unofficial TV [...]

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Nearly three months after Google TV hit the stores, Hulu Plus has yet to come to the service. Is the technical development really taking that much time? No. It seems more like Google and Hulu are still working out a partnership deal. Hulu Works For Samsung TVs Last week's Consumer Electronics Show got me thinking about what's up with Hulu and Google TV. I spent some time with a Samsung Smart TV and found Hulu Plus working great on that platform: In fact, Samsung told me it has had its Hulu Plus app since the middle of last year. In addition, Hulu's not blocking Samsung's built-in web [...]

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Looking to stream movies or television content from the internet to your TV? There are a variety of streaming media players on the market. The chart below provides an at-a-glance look at how the leaders -- Roku, Apple TV, Boxee Box and Google TV -- measure up against each other. After the chart, you'll find further details about the features listed, why they may be important to you, followed by links to our reviews of each product. Please note that this chart only covers how these players are configured and work in the United States. Unfortunately, we can't test these for other countries [...]

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