Google TV combines best of TV, Web

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA and ENGLEWOOD, CO – Google unveiled its Android-based Smart TV platform Thursday, claiming that the platform brings the power of the Internet to the television viewing experience.Google TV merges traditional TV programming with rich web media content, allowing viewers access, control, and flexibility over all forms of digital content. Google also announced a special IP protocol to link to Dish Network set-top boxes, meaning Dish customers can simultaneously search for content across its linear TV channels, the Internet and their DVRs, as well as overlay on-line content related to television shows, movies, actors and hyperlink web content back to...