The addition of the Android Market is perhaps the most notable addition because it lets people download hundreds of Android applications on their HDTVs, including the recently launched Google Music app and Netflix. Over 50 apps are optimized specifically for the Google TV experience. The update is free and will be delivered automatically to Revue owners via high-speed internet connection when they turn the device on.
The update should roll out to all Revue owners by the end of the week, according to Logitech. The Honeycomb update is probably the last significant upgrade planned by Logitech. Despite being the best Google TV-enabled device on market, the company announced plans to discontinue the Revue once the current stock sells through.
We may collect cookies and other personal information from your interaction with our website. For more information on the categories of personal information we collect and the purposes we use them for, please view our Notice at Collection. Become a Member Sign In. The setup and basic formats used can be found at Transitions' Workflowed blog. One of the biggest limitations found is the lack of support for transport streams.
Our first thought was that Logitech had chosen a more limited chipset that could not support the MPEG-2 codec used in traditional DVDs and that this limitation led to the decision not to support transport- or program-stream functionality. Yet, a conversation with a developer of an alternate media player reveals that the Revue is not only capable of supporting MPEG-2 and transport streams, but that TS and MPEG-2 support were available in a pre-release version of Honeycomb that could be loaded on to the Revue hardware.
In addition, it appears that an older version of the media player capabilities was listed on Logitech's page as recently as December 11 after the roll-out of the new Revue software update but has since been removed.
We asked Alexander about his initial attempts at getting the Revue to play the test content used for the Workflowed blog tests, based on a few comments he'd made on a Google TV hacker site where he mentioned transport streams and M2TS several times during his initial Honeycomb testing in early October:.
This leaked beta natively supported all formats listed on Google's support page except DTS sound. At that moment, I was thinking it was kind of a bug. But when the official release came out [this week], it appeared that it was switched off for a reason. SM: Was the code eliminated from the Revue firmware version or "switched off" as you say, and still accessible? Revue makes the same [tests]. We asked Logitech for a statement to clarify why it would choose to eliminate some codec and protocol support for Revue, as the lack of supported formats versus the Sony NSZ-GT1 was a common complaint in forum threads dating back to late We have yet to receive a statement, but the revelation that Revue is capable of playing some formats that Logitech chooses to bar its customers from using is troubling, since Logitech's Arora had specifically called out Logitech Media Player improvements as one of the key benefits of the update for existing customers.
It's also troubling for those new customers this holiday season who are still buying Revue units at Amazon or Best Buy. There is the outside possibility that Logitech will launch another firmware update, at least according to an interview with Larry Yang , a Google TV product manager, who notes that Google is working with Logitech to determine future releases.
Yang says Logitech still has a team in place working on Google TV software for their devices, but the elimination of key features from Google TV 2. First, why would Logitech blame Google for the failure of the Revue if Logitech itself chose to act as a gatekeeper to particular Google TV features and functionality? Second, if Logitech went to the trouble to push out an update for a discontinued product, as an attempt to engender good will with its current and future customers, why go to the trouble to eliminate key video support features?
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