I don't know about this rumor. It would be nice, but Google TV's whole thing is that it controls your cable box with fancypants video passthru and IR control, giving you the ability to search and watch both web and television content through their software. Still, there are rumors that Google TV could be coming to the PS3 in Spring of 2011.
Sony already has a relationship with Google, which was made clear with their newly released Google TVs and and settop Blu-ray box. We're with Tom's Guide in the hopes that Google TV would bring apps to the PlayStation 3 in one huge bundle including YouTube, Facebook, Last.fm, Twitter and others. I'd also love to see Google's Chrome replace the broken PS3 browser. I don't know how the searchable television functions would work without a HDMI passthru video port, though. Maybe they could offer some kind of upgrade box.
Nothing sounds very solid at this point. While it would be nice, I don't know how they could pull this off.
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1:20 PM on 11.09.2010 | 
PS - Anyone know when the Hulu Plus app is supposed to hit for us non PS+ users? I checked this weekend and didn't see it yet.
Still, from what I've read, I can definitely see the PS3 as being a device for Google TV given the recent partnership and the need for an intermediate internet carrier to be hooked up to the TV as most people still don't have those fancy new internet enabled TV's yet.
Sony's big ad campaign is that the PS3 "Only does everything" they're trying to bring it to the living room as your central device and adding Google TV would fill a nice part of that gap for PS3 owners who don't have cable. It might even be tempting enough that we would be willing to put some money towards it provided it satisfied our needs.
Sadly, you speak the truth.
Canada is horrible for that kind of stuff and I will not spend $120 a month for "cable" only to find out that hey, there is still nothing on. If they do bring it to Canada back it up with content that is not 2+ years old like Netflix.
and uh, Chrome (at least on Vista) isn't even rendering this page correctly...i had to use IE to comment...
I'm using Chrome on Vista, and the page looks fine. (Well, I'm using Iron, the Chrome-without-Google's-bullshit-spy-tactics browser.)
I'm getting a lot of overlapping sidebar action on Chrome since the switchback.
Both the "Community Blogs" section and the "Reviews" section are overlapping the comments (and stories) on the left side of the divider when they should be on the right side. Oh, and apparently, the "Staff" sidebar is doing it as well.
Will I try it if it releases? Sure.
Do I actually care about it? Not really.
Yes, it takes all the buttons on the Sixaxis to control, but it does the job, plus I can print stuff to my wireless printer off it.
This would be EXCELLENT.
*Does guitar thing from Bill and Ted*
I feel your pain. I hadn't had cable for the last 4 years, then got it going again for the olympics and world cup... I think I turned it on 3 times in the entire year... at least we FINALLY got netflix, and it's getting more content all the time... too bad the new ps3 layout is god awful...
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