Google for an unknown amount SageTV acquired. The company developed the eponymous mediacentersoftware. Probably, the developers of SageTV included in the team behind Google TV.
Google for an undisclosed amount, a Californian company, SageTV acquired. The software developer made since 2002 mediacentersoftware for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Except for media playback SageTV also has a tv with a tv tuner to view and record. Also developed SageTV software to television to streaming to any computer with internet access.
As is often for acquisitions of small companies, made Google not known what the acquisition plan. It is not inconceivable that the software and the developers found their way to the team behind Google TV. Up until now, the Google TV platform is only applied in some televisions and blu-ray players from Sony and the Revue-set-top box from Logitech.
Google TV has been lukewarm received and the criticism that the product is not yet finished seemed to be. For this reason, had the internetgigant are hardware requested new products with the platform. At the Google I/O 2011 conference made the internetgigant known that Google TV devices will be updated to Android 3.1 and access to the Android Market.