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07:21:00

Since Eric Schmidt made the rather bold proclamation that "most" new TVs would have Google TV embedded by summer
2012, we've all been waiting for something "big" from Mountain View. Well, if you can believe the services' Facebook page, "big announcements" are just what we can expect Monday. A post on Google TV's profile leaves a lot to the imagination, but while
speculation is already jumping
sky-high ( Google TV Nexus,
anyone?) the possibilities range all the way from new product announcements to minor service / feature expansions or contests -- so set your alert levels accordingly. Of course, if it were really a big deal then you'd think the news would come out on Google+, right?


Update: Just that fast, the official blog has revealed the big announcement and it's.... an updated version of the YouTube app. For what it's worth, the new version is supposed to be faster with smoother navigation
when it starts rolling out "in the next few days." It also adds a "Discover" feature for browsing by category, new channel pages and better tie-ins for related videos, which should help viewers browse its growing library of premium content, but isn't exactly the big announcement some may have anticipated.http://ksp2347.blogspot.com
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18:37:00

The Google TV update that rolled
out to Sony units earlier this
week (no word on the Revue,
yet) brought tweaks to Chrome
and support for Blu-ray 3D
playback on the player, but that's
not all. The bump to Android 3.2
also improved hooks for
developers to access channel
listings in their apps, enabled
hardware acceleration and last
but not least, improved support
for HTTP Live Streaming. That last
detail is particularly important to
those streaming video from their
PCs using Plex, since additional
HLS tweaks were necessary to
allow viewing of files transcoded
from otherwise-Google TV
unfriendly formats. Also
supported as in the Plex update
is selection of alternate audio
streams, subtitles, more channels
and a few other fixes. Check out
a Google+ post from Les Vogel of
the Google TV team for all the
Honeycomb 3.2 (API Level 13)
details you can stomach, the Plex
blog for more info on its
software, or just make sure
you're running the latest
updates and take a look around
yourself.http://ksp2347.blogspot.com
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02:11:00
It looks like that redesign was worth it. The Google-owned video site has recently revealed that it's now streaming 4 billion videos every day, up 25 percent on daily views from eight months earlier. According to Reuter's report, the site now has to deal with around 60 hours of uploaded video every minute. As long as those education videos are kept separate and the cat content keeps coming, we'll be happy.
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