Eric Schmidt says Google TV Will Be on Majority of TVs by Summer

By Rob Scott
December 9, 2011

We should expect to see a major push regarding Google TV in the coming months, according to Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt.
“By the summer of 2012… the majority of the televisions you see in television stores will have Google TV embedded in them,” he predicted while addressing a crowd at the LeWeb conference in Paris.
While Logitech has stepped away from the project, PC Pro reports that LG and Samsung are rumored to be debuting Google TV products at CES in January.
However, The Guardian warns that “Google TV is going to face an uphill battle: it may well be installed in lots of TV sets sitting on the shelves, but people may well be keeping their hands in their pockets; few people need to buy a new television. The market is saturated. TV sales look set for a dramatic slowdown in 2012.”
The Guardian agrees that Schmidt’s contention may be accurate, but adds: “…there’s a long way from that to people buying them, and taking them home, and engaging the Internet capability, and enjoying the experience more than they do through some other channel such as their laptop, tablet, or games console. Let’s check back in a year.”

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