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Rumors about Google TV was not groundless. Internet giant based in Mountain View, California, USA, was officially announced the Google TV, the latest breakthrough that will bring the overall Internet experience on a television screen.

“This opens access your TV from only a few channels to millions of channels of entertainment on TV and the web,” said Salahuddin Choudhary, Product Manager for Google TV, Google’s official blog, Thursday (20/05/2010). Certainty the existence of Google TV was announced simultaneously with the activities the Google I / O in San Francisco, which is an annual event the meeting of the Google application developers.

For the success of this project, Google took the Sony and Logitech. Google TV first product package, including supporting devices, such as Blu-ray players and set top box, will be available from autumn or between July to September this year.

Google TV is built on a platform based on open source, ie, Android and Chrome. Thus, features open the possibility to be developed in the future, plus applications and other web based services. Inside Chrome already equipped browser to access websites including search service to search for video, TV channel, and other interactive content.

Google Google TV plans to release the SDK (software development kit) and web APIs (application programming interface) to a TV for the developer as soon as Google TV is available in the market. Applications for Google TV will be collected in the Android Market. However, this time the programmer Android and Chrome are able to optimize its application for TV service with new tools that have been released by Google.