Logitech Revue - Google TV, now $99
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Sane_Man
Totally Tubular
Any store that sells them, like Best Buy, who by the way are sold out at the moment because everybody went and bought one. They are backordered for 10 days at Amazon.
This is the new price because hardly anyone was paying $299 for one.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Logitec...218243226608&skuId=1257136&st=revue&cp=1&lp=1
AbsolutEnduser
Throttle Pusher
tnx. maybe I shold jump on the backorder. Been wondering whether my TV should get networked for a while.
Sane_Man
Totally Tubular
As of yesterday, Tigerdirect.com still had some. They are selling them through the new and improved CompUSA brick and mortar stores. Mine will be delivered on the 22nd by Amazon.
Sane_Man
Totally Tubular
2nd Gen AppleTV refurb is $85.
Do you get a full browser on your TV with that Apple device? Nope. :laughing
Keyboard? Nope. :laughing
Can you stream all video formats you want and not just Mpeg-4? Nope. :laughing
Can you plug USB drives with all sorts of media? Nope, it doesn't even have a USB port. :laughing
Just got an email from Amazon that they will deliver by Aug 11th. :banana
Sane_Man
Totally Tubular
It's Google TV.
You plug your satellite or cable receiver into it, then to your HDMI port on your TV. It connects to your network either with WiFi or Ethernet cable. Originally you was supposed to be able to use it without a receiver and could stream a shitload of channels for free, but all the networks bailed on Google. But you can do Hulu, Netflix, and all that jazz. You can hit a button on the wireless keyboard that also has a touchpad, then have a a full browser on your TV which includes flash. Your TV is open in a window.
You can search for shows or actors and it will pull up the info from the net plus find the shows on your receivers and either tune them in or schedule them automatically on your DVR. It will also control your receivers. You can plug USB drives directly into the unit that has your movies, or it can stream them from your PC.
It runs Android 2.2, but later this month it will run Android 3.1 to fx all the issues it had and you can install a bunch of Apps on it. It also works as a Harmony Universal remote.
It was selling for $300, but since it really wasn't worth that kind of money, they just lowered the price to $99.
Here's the website that has all the details.
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/smartTV/revue
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gnahc79
Fear me!
Back when GTV first came out I was very interested until I found that you could not hook up a decent sized external drive to it and play local files easily. Is this still the case? The google brings up old posts/questions, not sure if the new software has fixed this up any. Boxee still seems like THE device to get for playing local media files on your TV.
I'm getting neither though and will probably buy the XBOX+Kinect for Christmas...for the kids of course :laughing.
I'm getting neither though and will probably buy the XBOX+Kinect for Christmas...for the kids of course :laughing.
Sane_Man
Totally Tubular
As of 12/2010 it now supports drives up to 2TB when formatted for NTFS.
Before that it was 895Gb and only FAT.
The device has two USB ports but you can only have one external drive connected.
http://forums.logitech.com/t5/Revue/Hard-Drive/td-p/497486/page/3
Sane_Man
Totally Tubular
yodaisgod
KHAAAAAN!
You can...hack it.
iOS5 will enable the Bluetooth within to let you use a keyboard
You can...hack it.
You can...hack it.
Get over it. :rolleyes
AbsolutEnduser
Throttle Pusher
Sane_Man
Totally Tubular
As per Apple SOP, none of their devices will perform any task that is standard practice by any other vendor. I would post 50% more for a product just so I wouldn't have to hack out, plus worry when I do an update that all my hacking was in vain.
I was just naming all the cool features the device had and didn't have any intention to say anything bad about Apple TV until you got a wild hair about it for whatever reason.:rolleyes
yodaisgod
KHAAAAAN!
My bad...I was drunk when I posted that. :teeth