Chrome to TV

The new Google TV is a bit glitchy, and I wish the clock was on the other side of the home screen, but so far fun. What I want to meantion that most people would probably never find is Chrome to TV.

There is a chrome extention called Chrome to Phone, that pushes a site from your chrome browser to your phone, if you need to leave or something. They incorporated it into Google TV, so now when you have a youtube video on your computer you can push it straight to the TV with only a click of one button. That simple feature might be the nicest of all the updates, and it isn't even advertised.

Gingerbread update!

My TV just alerted me it is updating. Finally after a whole year of talk it has come. I will give a few review probably in a few days, but I am just celebrating that it is here.

False Update Excitement

Today I turned on my TV and there was an update. I got really excited, but all for nothing. The update only took like two minutes and I have no idea what changed, but not that much. How lame. When is Ice Cream Sandwich coming.

Zediva Shut Down

On of the saddest things that has happened in a while is Zediva getting shut down. It happened on August 11th. In the middle of the night I got an email that told me they lost to the government and got shut down. They call it an "Intermission" but it really just means they lost.

I still had like 5 credits I was going to use. I liked Zediva, even if it only worked during the day, because my apartment's internet is too slow at night. I had used it on my Google TV and on my Android phone. It was great. I am sad big companies can just beat them out because they have more money.

Thank you for being great when you lasted. I will miss you Zediva, you made my newly released movie experience so much better.

YouTube Updates

Youtube Leanback got a new update this week. I like it, for searching, but the old Leanback was so much more relaxing. If you went to the page it would just play, you didn't have to think, just go there and it would find something for you for a while. The new one is just back to youtube where you have to find what you want. It is fine, and the new one looks a little better, but it is back to searching.

Youtube movie is a different experience. I am glad to see they have new movies as well as some free ones. I think for my movie watching I will stay with Zediva for new ones because it is much cheaper, but it is nice to know it is there. Sadly when the internet connection is slow, Netflix is way better than youtube on keeping your movie streaming. Most the free movies are on Netflix so if you are paying for it, youtube movies might be hard to get into.