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Posted by brasco - Mon 25 Jun 2012 11:25
Now for BT to fix the internet and we're away!
Posted by cheesemp - Mon 25 Jun 2012 11:46
Way too expensive! I'd like one but that's a crazy price. I got a bluray player with iplayer (made by sony) for £80 over a year ago. Why is this costing double?
Posted by jimbouk - Mon 25 Jun 2012 11:57
Wait what, £200? More than the price of a PS3 that seems to do everything this does but add Blueray and proper games. Significantly more than a Xbox 360. Twice the price it should be…
Posted by BerZerk - Mon 25 Jun 2012 11:58
£200? My Acer Rev 3700 XBMC does the same thing for less.
Posted by crossy - Mon 25 Jun 2012 11:58
The remote for the Sony GS7 Google TV is necessarily complicated looking due to the inclusion of a QWERTY keyboard, and it is a two sided device.
Hmm, I'm going to disagree slightly here - the pictures show volume and channel buttons on the side of the controller, so surely it's a three sided device? Good of Sony to realise that duck-shoot keyboards are poor - just wish I could use that fancy controller with my Sony TV and Home Theatre kit!

Oh, and at £200 the price is far too high - try dropping it £70 or so and they'll probably sell a whole lot more!
Posted by MrBozack - Mon 25 Jun 2012 12:51
You can buy a sandybridge PC without an operating system for that much!
Home theatre PC with XBMC and a tidy MCE remote is way better.

Sorry Google,

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Posted by BlackDwarf - Mon 25 Jun 2012 12:59
I'd go up to £100, if only for the inclusion of the remote.
Up against an Apple TV, jailbroken with XBMC (hell, my £21 RasPi can handle it), and Google can kiss my behind.

Failwhale indeed.
Posted by cjs150 - Mon 25 Jun 2012 19:04
That remote looks very interesting - needs hacking, but the design hints at a lot of potential. Make it rechargeable and able to control the rest of a high end AV system and Sony have a winner.

The key is going to be how quiet (or not) the box is, ability to deal with HD and how hackable. Crack those and I am happy to pay £300 for a GP9, every other bit of my AV kit cost more
Posted by Brewster0101 - Mon 25 Jun 2012 19:50
£200 is a silly price and although the features tick all the boxes, modern blurays players by LG and Samsung are hot on the heals of all these apps , if not already there. This is a good idea, poorly priced (thanks to Sony no doubt) and offers features that are becoming the norm fast in TV's and Bluray players ( latter being cheaper than £200 )
Posted by Hicks12 - Mon 25 Jun 2012 20:00
if they launched it with a bluray player and priced it around £150 im sure that would be a competent all in one but its pretty poor effort here by google and sony in regards to pricing, my phone can do the media streaming and my panasonic bluray player cost me £50 played blurays brilliantly and does have some online things (but my tivo box has this aswell..) i want quality audio when buying something this expensive and im not seeing DTS or anything?.