Google to Launch Android TV

Just some days once Amazon undraped the fireplace TV, Google can reportedly launch its own set-top box.

                                                   

The Mountain read, Calif. company is near debuting mechanical man TV, associate Android-powered platform which will contend directly with the fireplace TV, Apple TV and Roku. Google can still sell its Chromecast device, a $35 electronic device that plugs into any TV to allow you to watch on-line videos from your pill, smartphone or laptop, consistent with The Verge.

Video app suppliers square measure presently operating arduous to create for mechanical man TV. The device also will be compatible with play, and are available with associate ex gratia play controller, very similar to the fireplace TV.

Documents obtained by The Verge define a less complicated approach than Google TV, that launched in 2010, and aimed to show TV sets into larger versions of smartphones.

"Android TV is associate amusement interface, not a computing platform," the document same. "It’s all regarding finding and enjoying content with the smallest {amount} amount of friction." it'll be "cinematic, fun, fluid, and fast."

Android TV can support voice commands (like the fireplace TV), and concentrate on finding content quickly. The document describes however it should not take quite 3 clicks to travel from the house screen to observation content. "Access to content ought to be easy and sorcerous," it said. "Access to content ought to be easy and sorcerous," it said.

The interface can embody "cards" for every motion-picture show, show, app and games — all sitting on a virtual shelf — and users are able to access a distant management to navigate through the content. Screenshots of mechanical man broadcast Google apps like YouTube and Hangouts enclosed on the platform, likewise as outside services like Hulu, Netflix and Pandora.

The news follows reports that the corporate is in talks to launch its own wireless service in regions wherever it already offers Google Fiber web and television service. Considering that Google already dominates with its program and mechanical man mobile software system, it is a natural (yet ambitious) step for the corporate to do to stay all mobile communications at intervals its scheme.