Posted By
Mike Lata
January 12, 2012 at 11:38am
You may be aware of the Google TV platform if you own a Smart TV set or a TV set that came out in the last couple months. The platform lets users connect to the Internet and watch streaming movies, browse the Web, and even run apps from their TV set. It comes inside many TV sets or separate products; however, it doesn't support stereo 3D unless TV manufacturers have decided to incorporate it themselves.
According to XbitLabs, this will soon change. This is because Marvell has added stereo 3D support for their Armada 1500 HD system-on-chip, which will power the next wave of Google TVs.
What makes this confusing for consumers is that the system-on-chip comes in a separate platform, called Foresight, that will be incorporated into the entire Google TV platform.
“The Foresight Platform is designed to deliver stereo-3D video, rich audio, 3D graphics and TV-friendly web content,” according to the report.
The bottom line is that when you buy future HD TV sets, and they support Google TV, you will have a 3D TV set. This will in turn spread the adoption rate of the tech much further.
Weili Dai, who is the co-founder of Marvell, had this to say about the Foresight platform and his company's relationship with Google:
“Marvell and Google have teamed up to change home entertainment forever – transforming the TV into the command center for our connected lifestyle. Marvell and Google are fundamentally changing the relationship between the producers and consumers of content – from Hollywood to Madison Avenue to publishing and major news networks – creating a dynamic, two-way experience featuring real-time global news, social network, entertainment and information.”
Google TV is great for anyone wishing to take their home entertainment center into a digital frontier. The technology behind it also keeps improving in terms of specs as evidence by this report. It will be interesting to see how far Google will take it in terms of stuff like gaming or how the Stereo 3D gets incorporated into other apps or services.