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## Video: Why You Should Get Google TV

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_Published 2010-10-07. This holiday season will be full of TV boxes: Apple TV, Boxee, and Roku, to name a few. Google TV gets lumped in with all these other hardware boxes, but it does one main thing in particular that sets it apart from the rest._


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## Transcript

Let's talk about Google TV. It's coming out in the very near future, and I'll be honest, I don't think Google has done a very good job explaining it to people. You have all these TV boxes like Apple TV, Boxee Box, Roku-- all these hardware boxes. And then, you have Google TV, which gets lumped in with all these hardware boxes. And though it may be available in a hardware box form or built into a TV set, it's completely different from these hardware boxes. Now, your current cable setup, you probably have a box from Comcast or Dish Network, DirecTV, whatever. And that goes in to the primary input on your TV.

And that's how you watch TV. Then, if you wanna watch a DVD or you wanna watch something on your Apple TV, you need to switch to Input 2. So, all these hardware boxes are Input 2 devices. Google is an Input 1 device. You don't have to switch inputs to use Google TV. It sits in between your cable box-- or your Dish box-- and your TV, and acts as a layer over the top of however you currently watch TV. So, you're watching cable through your Comcast box, and you type on your Google TV keyboard the office. And the layer over the top of your cable box will pop up, and it will show you when the office is gonna be on your cable box, where you can download it from Amazon on Demand, or maybe show you web results on Google TV's built- in web browser-- all of which is available right there, Input 1.

You don't have to switch. That is the main difference between Google TV and all these other competitors. And I think it makes Google TV much more interesting than all these competitors. And again, I don't think they've done a good job explaining that to people. So, there you go. Google, I know you have an office here in Boston. So, if you wanna talk about set me up with a job, it's gonna be tough 'cause I like working from home. I need at least a boss pass. I'll die in this apartment. I love it. I'm not leaving.

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