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Google could utilise this software for Google TV, providing a cloud-based approach to TV content management it has only flirted by letting users “fling” YouTube videos from their smartphones to Google TV. A $30 (£18) add-on to the $80 (£49) SageTV media centre package, PlaceShifter gives users remote access to videos, music, photos, as well as live and recorded programming. However, most think DVR is hardly the focus.Īs part of its media management provisions, SageTV has created Placeshifter.
The only way Google TV users can utilise DVR through Google TV is through the Dish satellite service. While it might be tempting to believe that because SageTV makes DVR software, Google will use this technology to go ahead and add native DVR to Google TV. “The SageTV team has developed the latest in media management software, and we look forward to working with them to take this technology to the next level,” is all a Google spokesperson who tell eWEEK about the deal.
However, the team will almost certainly be deployed to work on the search engine’s Google TV effort out of YouTube’s offices in San Bruno, California. Google did not disclose how much it paid and it also declined to say how many employees from SageTV would be joining the company, where they will be based, or what they will do. Google has purchased SageTV, a specialist company that provides digital video recording (DVR) and media management software for home entertainment systems.