SatelliteGuys Review: Logitech Revue with GoogleTV – A Diamond in the Rough

[GaryPen]

The "killer" apps for me will be Dish Remote Access (plus DishOnline support in Chrome) and SlingPlayer Mobile.

SlingPlayer Mobile for Tablets may already work. But, I don't wanna pay $30 to find out it's not compatible.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

It's not compatible.

 

[GaryPen]

It's not compatible.

Fiddlesticks!

 

[Character Zero]

I thought there was rumors the Sling beta for Google Tv was compatible with our Sling Adapters.

 

[GaryPen]

Anybody around here a Sling beta tester? I am. But, I never got invited to test this one.

 

[pabeader]

um. if you ARE a tester, you can't say...

 

[GaryPen]

I didn't see that anywhere. I know you can't talk about what you are testing, not whether or not you are in the program at all.

 

[pabeader]

part of any standard NDA, probably in the first paragraph...

 

[wase4711]

anyone with a Logitech get the update yet?

thanks

 

[John Kotches]

anyone with a Logitech get the update yet?

thanks

not as of last night. i doubt it will roll out over the weekend. Sunday night / Monday morning? maybe.

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[wase4711]

we can only hope..

hopefully, someone posts it here as soon as it drops for them!

 

[jwmcmann]

I wish you would update this. It's year old...

 

[mloebl]

I saw a post today somewhere in the Revue forums about it still going to take a couple more weeks since they just got the SDK from Google (whatever that means), but I can't find the post now. I will say even though not everything works at this point on Dish Online due to it being blocked, I did appreciate having the Revue this weekend. Caught up on a few HBO shows and FOX shows that I missed thanks to the power outage from the snow storm this week. The video quality for FOX via Dish Online looked pretty darn good; I think it seemed to look even a bit better than the HD feed I get off Dish. Looking forward to see what 3.1 brings

-Mike

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

That's not true at all is Logitech didn't have the sdk then why is the update on my Revue now?

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[mloebl]

That's not true at all is Logitech dn't have the sdk then why is the update on my Revue now
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Agreed, but it was actually from one of the support people too... I wonder if they are trying to point the blame at Google a bit to try to save some face.

EDIT: I stand corrected, I confused a couple posts when I went back and did some hunting. One of the Google support people said they are working with Google and it should be out soon. One of the people supporting (aka fighting the bashing) of Logitech had posted they got the final SDK recently so to calm down.

In any case I'm looking forward to it when it gets here

-Mike

 

[John Kotches]

Scott,

Betas could be based on a beta SDK as well. That said, there's no way in hell they are just getting the final Honeycomb SDK. Google would have given it to their partners at about the same time.

I suspect we will see it in the next week or two.

 

[GaryPen]

I will say even though not everything works at this point on Dish Online due to it being blocked, I did appreciate having the Revue this weekend. Caught up on a few HBO shows and FOX shows that I missed thanks to the power outage from the snow storm this week. The video quality for FOX via Dish Online looked pretty darn good; I think it seemed to look even a bit better than the HD feed I get off Dish. Looking forward to see what 3.1 brings

-Mike

I don't understand. Are you saying you were able to use DishOnline with the Chrome browser in a Revue with the original GTV software?

 

[mloebl]

I don't understand. Are you saying you were able to use DishOnline with the Chrome browser in a Revue with the original GTV software?

yup! Anything Hulu realated does not work but Fox definitely worked fine with Dish Online. It was funny as the ads didn't work wellbut the video works fine and looked very good.

-Mike

 

[GaryPen]

Hmm. When I attempt to access Fox on DO, I get the Hulu error message.

On the bright side, the Hulu error message now says that Hulu is working on a Google TV app. So, we got that goin' for us...which is nice.

 

[mloebl]

Maybe it depends on the programming? I watched Terra Nova from Monday without a problem.

Any of the ABC shows I tried were SOL.

-Mike