Sunday, August 4, 2013

From DIAL to Chromecast: How Netflix and Google want to save TV

Netflix and Google have both been trying to save television. And we are not talking about YouTube and Arrested Development for a change, but on the actual TV set ? the device that?s in your living room.

Netflix has been talking behind closed doors to TV makers to make their so-called smart TVs less painful to use, Google has worked to replace the on-screen keyboard with voice search and both companies have cooperated to establish an open AirPlay competitor ? work that eventually led to Google?s Chromecast device, which launched a little more than a week ago and immediately sold out online and in stores around the country.

This week, we chronicled these efforts to make TVs suck less in a three-part series called Making TVS smart that featured interviews with developers, executives and more.?Here?s your chance to catch up in case you missed it:

Source: http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/1Nca0_NMp64/story01.htm

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