Comments on: How I Fell in Love with a Sony BluRay Player with Google TV [Opinion] http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/11/how-i-fell-in-love-with-a-sony-bluray-player-with-google-tv-opinion/ An intense Android news community bringing you the latest in phones, rooting, apps, and reviews. Sun, 19 May 2013 04:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Oeoutfitters http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/11/how-i-fell-in-love-with-a-sony-bluray-player-with-google-tv-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-1296050 Oeoutfitters Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:43:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=58425#comment-1296050 I purchased the same box 6 months ago and it has become the entertainment centerpiece of the house.  Everyone uses it… even my technologically impaired wife.  Just yesterday I downloaded the Google Tv remote from the market for my Galaxy Nexus. This makes the standard factory remote fall on its face and it was a pretty good remote.

]]> By: tareq samman http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/11/how-i-fell-in-love-with-a-sony-bluray-player-with-google-tv-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-1295253 tareq samman Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:09:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=58425#comment-1295253 It cost me $10 to have the same thing and even better.. it called HDMI cable + Sidereel.com..
the steps:

- buy the right cable to hook your laptop/PC with your TV
- Hook up your laptop/PC to your TV.. (if you don’t have HDTV and have an old one just get a converter)
- open your browser and go to http://www.sidereel.com (you can use netflix, hulu, the daily show etc)

and now you have a smart TV with anything you want..!

can’t beat that!

]]> By: 秀年 许 http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/11/how-i-fell-in-love-with-a-sony-bluray-player-with-google-tv-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-1294583 秀年 许 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:59:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=58425#comment-1294583  

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]]> By: Israel Fabian http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/11/how-i-fell-in-love-with-a-sony-bluray-player-with-google-tv-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-1294264 Israel Fabian Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:50:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=58425#comment-1294264 Nice to know that someone else out there is enjoying GTV like I am. I have one myself when it first came out (Sony blu-ray w/ GTV $350 at BestBuy). So far I love it and there’s always new tricks every other day which keeps me busy. This past holiday I got one for my father-in-law and he loves it. Now as the phone goes, with the RAZR and Nexus. My dad has a RAZR and he came from a blackberry to Droid X. The RAZR is really responsive but I actually haven’t got a chance to play with it fully. Now for the nexus, I haven’t actually seen in or held it and there are too many people trying it out at the Verizon store but I am planning on getting once soon. And I’m still have and rockin’ the Droid Eris rooted with Gingerbread but I had to reverted back to the stock rom as it was giving me too many problems. But I do love HTC sense no doubt but HTC takes too long to send updates. I do understand that the carriers are the ones who are holding up the updates and they have to test it out first before being deployed to the comsumer. Besides that, if you have this beautiful Gnex you wont have to worry about updates.

]]> By: Jamdev12 http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/11/how-i-fell-in-love-with-a-sony-bluray-player-with-google-tv-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-1293389 Jamdev12 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:41:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=58425#comment-1293389 So to me there is an issue in all of this. The Bluray player may give the perception that you now have a smarttv, but there is an issue with this notion. These tvs, bluray players, video game systems are not programmed yet to be smart. A smart appliance like GTV should not only be able to search for content for me. It should be able to offer additonal content it thinks I like based on what I’ve already watched. For example let say I watch a show that has Bill Mauer in it. GTV should be able to recommend shows like the Daily Show or some other show or program about commedians who take on the political establishment. If I read a news story about planets in our solar system it could probably recommend reading about the Keppler mission or finding other planets close to other stars. These so call smart devices are not smart enough yet, but they’ll get there soon enough. I hope.

]]> By: Chris Sandoval http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/11/how-i-fell-in-love-with-a-sony-bluray-player-with-google-tv-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-1293203 Chris Sandoval Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:04:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=58425#comment-1293203 I bought my google TV during the holiday season as well for 150 due to it being an open box item. (It was one of the displays)
A BB costumer activated their Netflix account on it, so I have free Netflixl
But the best thing about this product.. its an ultimate Entertainment device.
Cousins came over.. we played “We Draw” through our smartphones, watched YouTube videos, and than finished tge night with a movie.
A week later I had a party and I had my music play from my phone through DLNA,after that.. back on YouTube to play “we found love” 3 times cause I don’t have Rihanna on my phone.
And on days I have videos or pictures to show to everyone…
Back connected with DLNA. :) awesome media device!

]]> By: Daniel Tifft http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/11/how-i-fell-in-love-with-a-sony-bluray-player-with-google-tv-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-1292915 Daniel Tifft Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:51:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=58425#comment-1292915 Great article! I have an Xbox 360 that has many viable media options but I had never really thought of checking out Google TV until now, thanks.

]]> By: Jrak02 http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/11/how-i-fell-in-love-with-a-sony-bluray-player-with-google-tv-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-1292811 Jrak02 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:26:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=58425#comment-1292811 Isn’t this basically the same thing as HDMIing your laptop’s display onto your flatscreen? The writer lauds the wide range of codec on the built in media player (you mean, like VLC?) and then lists a variety of live channel and video streaming services it provides (you mean, like the internet?)

What am I missing?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/11/how-i-fell-in-love-with-a-sony-bluray-player-with-google-tv-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-1292690 Anonymous Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:50:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=58425#comment-1292690 Hey PAK, what’s the sony model of the bluray player.  Been looking for one under $200. =)

]]> By: Kolbe Launchbaugh http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/11/how-i-fell-in-love-with-a-sony-bluray-player-with-google-tv-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-1292653 Kolbe Launchbaugh Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:44:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=58425#comment-1292653 Which Blu-Ray player was it?

]]> By: Raven http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/11/how-i-fell-in-love-with-a-sony-bluray-player-with-google-tv-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-1292630 Raven Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:34:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=58425#comment-1292630 I was about to run out and buy one until I looked at the Amazon picture.  That thing is horrendously ugly and will have no place in my gleaming all black entertainment system (I abhor white and silver hardware).  I think I will wait for a better (all black) physical design to come out.  It almost looks like something that Apple designed, how ironic that it runs Google.

]]> By: Benjamin Clay http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/11/how-i-fell-in-love-with-a-sony-bluray-player-with-google-tv-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-1292563 Benjamin Clay Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:17:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=58425#comment-1292563 When I first looked into GoogleTV, I was really disappointed with the remote, the slowness, the interface, etc.  Has the latest update (to honeycomb) made this worth looking into again?  

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/11/how-i-fell-in-love-with-a-sony-bluray-player-with-google-tv-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-1292382 Anonymous Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:32:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=58425#comment-1292382 Nice opinion piece…

Funny…from what I read in your article you seem to have been on almost the same phone progression as me.  I went from Palm Treo to Blackberry to Droid1 to Bionic to Galaxy Nexus.

]]> By: Gastripod http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/11/how-i-fell-in-love-with-a-sony-bluray-player-with-google-tv-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-1292295 Gastripod Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:08:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=58425#comment-1292295 I have 2 Sony Blu-Ray players with Google TV. I love them. My only complaint about them is that they can be a bit sluggish at times. The Honeycomb update went a long way to address the sluggishness, but they could still be a bit quicker. The remote is awkward for some. Personally, I love it, but it confuses the hell out of my 78 year old dad. I really thought my wife would hate it, but she just loves it and to my mild surprise, my 6 and 8 year old kids just know how to use it. Netflix works great. I LOVE PLEX. That app has really made a world of difference on the platform for me. I am hopeful for more apps, like HBO GO, a dedicated Weather Channel app, or Calendar widget so I could have the TV on in the morning displaying the family’s agenda for that day with weather and traffic. 

I have recommended the Google TV to lots of people and have a few that have adopted it.    

]]> By: Joe _T http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/11/how-i-fell-in-love-with-a-sony-bluray-player-with-google-tv-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-1292123 Joe _T Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:15:00 +0000 http://www.droid-life.com/?p=58425#comment-1292123 I too got this Sony BluRay player / Gtv and have also fallen 100% head over heels for it. My wife and I have talked many times already about how it is the most used and best Christmas gift we’ve received in years!

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