Tuesday, 5 May 2015

Android TV, the future is here!

While we might wonder what the future of television may be, it is already a revolution by the way technology has been changing it! Recently the masterminds behind android, Google has announced of Android compatible Television Devices, which will give users a freedom to stick to traditional Television Broadcast to a Browser, based New Media Convergence.

The tagline for this segment of devices has been versed as “Entertainment tailored for you”. The defined uniqueness of these new devices comes from their fully functional Android operating system. Earlier models of Smart television devices had a limited interactivity, which have been replaced by these Android devices.

Some of the new personalized features of the TV version of Android OS are its Voice Search function, Google Cast compatibility with other devices and Remote control compatibility. Your cellphone or a digital watch can now control your television! The all-new TV OS based Google Play has all those favorite applications to be downloaded into your devices. Video calls would also be easy and possible with webcams. Some new devices can be predicted to be having inbuilt front facing cameras. 

That’s not all. Gaming moves to a whole new level as game controllers are now being developed for these devices.Gamers can play multiplayer games online as well and build community based gaming forums. Game developershave shifted their concentration while scripting new interactive games for the Android platform as the devices have now moved to larger screens from earlier mobile devices based on android.


Google has officially announced tie up with ASUS, NVIDIA, Philips, Razer, Sharp and Sony for the manufacturing of these Android based smart Televisions. However we can find various other companies developing on this open source platform bringing out their own versions of android TV. 

Arunim Das Purkayastha
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