Hardware for Google’s tv service in August in the Netherlands are available, so Sony has announced. A set-top box and a blu-ray player should be available for the price of respectively € 200 and € 300.
Opposite nu.nl let Sony know that the first hardware running Google TV comes out in August. Although there is a set-top box and a blu-ray player planned, there will be seemingly no televisions with the television service. It comes to the NSZ-GS7 set top box and a blu-ray player model number NSZ-GP9.
According to Stéphane Labrousse, marketing director at Sony France, the new set-top box and blu-ray player with Google TV in september in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain, reports the French newspaper Les Echos. If the information is of nu.nl true, it seems the Netherlands already earlier Google TV hardware to get.
It was going to be a test to see if Google TV catches on in Europe. Therefore, there is only a set-top box and a blu-ray player offered. This can for lower prices on the market than televisions with the Google TV is integrated. Sony showed at the CES fair in all his blu-ray player with Google tv service, the NSZ-GP9.
The remotes of both devices would be a separate button that provides access to Play, the application store of Google. This can so Android apps on the tv are used. It is also Sony’s own music service Music Unlimited. The service for streaming music coming out this month in the Netherlands.
Google has little success with his tv service. Earlier there were messages to the outside that there is less than a million devices with Google TV in circulation. Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt is expected, however, in the coming months be more successful to be able to books; every tv manufacturer with which Google speaks, has an interest in the service, says Schmidt.
Update: 15:52: this article first referred only to statements of Sony France. The statements of Sony in the article processed.
