We spotted a demo of Sony's new Google TV-toting Internet TV while walking around the massive Sony stand here at IFA.
The Sony Internet TV with Google TV has a release date of November, but it will debut in the US first. It shouldn't be too long before it makes it to the UK though.
As you'll see, the demo seems to be very much focused on 'websites on your TV' as well as a way to bring new TV content to your screen.

As you can see, the system overlays your picture - bringing up a search box and, seemingly, giving you some kind of history/Google Suggest-type feature.
A video demo also showed a guy searching for information on U.F.O.s using voice search - interesting.

As you can see from the screen below, the system is designed so you can search channels as well as programmes and the web.

Here's a complete use-case for the system. You're watching a football match...

...and you bring up the search bar. You want to find out more about the World Cup - the system suggests the official site.

Which you just click and go to from your sofa.

Google TV will also go picture-in-picture - here's the football overlaying Twitter.

And here's the same thing, but with the menu enabled.

Now we're in Google Maps where we're looking for somewhere - obviously Google TV goes in heavy with the various Google services.


And now we're looking at images on Picasa...


...and finally, videos on YouTube. That's Google TV!





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