Google Sony Web TV and Google Side Bar

[CRTGAMER]

GOOGLE SIDE BAR
What do you think of the new left side search "Everything Link" taking away screen estate to search hits? I personally hate it. You can go back to the older Google without the side bar by deleting cookies and blocking cookies in Firefox from Google.com. May end up losing some Google functions including Google earth and your Google account access. Now I have to figure out how to block that silly Everything side bar in Safari without blocking cookies from Racketboy. Its somewhere in the Preferences - Security section.

GOOGLE PLEASE GET RID OF THIS USELESS FEATURE!

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/W ... 27ee&hl=en

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GOOGLE WEB TV
Sony unveiled their new built in Internet ready TV featuring Google TV. Idea is seamless integration of TV viewing and web browsing on the big screen. This has been done before, remember the old Magnavox Web TV set top boxes? Failed because of monthly charges, fuzzy text on a 480i screen and perhaps too soon for the public. Now that HDTV with VGA capability is the norm, will Web TV finally make it? An integrated HDTV is a big investment. Sony also has a plug in module for Google TV. Right now one can surf HDTV Internet using, current Gen consoles, a laptop or maybe the Mac Mini (My Goal) without an additional charge utilizing one's own existing Web service which for lot of users is their current TV cable provider.

Maybe your local cable company will join this band wagon, might be a good thing. Right now I have COX which has "On Demand" which allows viewing of shows when you want. Internet is available through cable so might be fully Integrated to cable TV box in the future. I give it a year, invest your stocks accordingly.

http://discover.sonystyle.com/internettv/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/th ... web_tv.php

"Set Top" Module to make your flat screen not so flat.


The failed first attempt, will Google TV succeed?

[Luke]

Pac-Man on google today!

[Hatta]

I don't mind the sidebar. Horizontal screen space is cheap anyway. For ease of reading, no column of text should be wider than 60-80 characters. Google's search results are a little wider than that. If you count the width of the search results *and* the sidebar there's still about 1/3 of the screen on the right that's going unused. And this is on a 4:3 monitor. On a 16:9 monitor, the right side of the screen would be a vast empty space. It's good that they are putting it to use.

[CRTGAMER]

Pac-Man on google today!

Slick! I don't mind this cookie, just that silly side bar.

Google rubs it in by not having side bar at the home screen.

http://www.google.com/

[Snickerd00dle]

Pac-Man on google today!

I was debating making a thread about this, but there is already a non-related google discussion, so I'm glad we have discussed it, does anybody know why they're doing this??

[Pulsar_t]

I was fed up with Google long before they mangled their interface. I'm using Bing now, out of pure spite, but I dislike MS also. Damn human nature that leads to such monopolies.

[Jrecee]

If you use firefox there's a greasemonkey script thingy that gets rid of some of the more annoying aspects of "new google". I don't really care about the sidebar (I like it for image searching) but they've got a script that gets rid of that annoying fade in when you first go to google and have to wait for the "maps/images/etc." thing at the top to fade in.

[CRTGAMER]

Okay here are some more Google TV links:

http://www.google.com/tv/

http://www.google.com/tv/developer/

http://www.logitech.com/en-us/1007/7140 ... TheDetails

Your local Cable TV provider to follow with their own money grabber.

[Jrecee]

So google tv works with your cable and satellite provider? I'm only interested in things that replace current cable and satellite providers, they're all garbage.

[CRTGAMER]

So google tv works with your cable and satellite provider? I'm only interested in things that replace current cable and satellite providers, they're all garbage.

Not yet, just putting a tease that I think eventually Cable TV might pick up on this. Right now "On Demand" instant movies and Internet are available from that "RF" cable. Would make sense to offer the Internet on HDTV as well.