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Why Is Logitech Revue Keyboard Keyboard Becoming The Hot New Keyboard For Christmas 2010?
Hat’s off to Logitech: They truly know how to design a keyboard. Our opinion of the rest of the Revue-Logitch’s initial Google TV product-isn’t nearly as lofty. The Revue’s utility in no way justifies its $300 price tag. And while Dish Network buyers can buy the device at the subsidized price of $180, they’ll forever pay a $4 per month “DVR integration fee” to get full use of it.
The Logitech Revue is based on Google’s Google TV concept and is designed to let you search for and enjoy all kinds of media, be it on a pay TV service, the Net, a USB tough drive, somewhere on your local network, or on your DVR (even though it fully integrates only with Dish Network DVRs appropriate now). The Revue doesn’t have a TV tuner or a hard drive, depending instead on an outboard tuner or a set-top box equipped with an HDMI output for those capabilities. We tested the Revue with a Dish Network ViP 622 high-definition DVR, with the Revue acting as a wireless Ethernet bridge connecting the DVR to our network and broadband connection (i.e., we connected the Revue to our wireless network and then hard-wired the Revue to our DVR).
Don’t get fingerprints on the Revue’s glossy black top, simply because you’ll scratch it whenever you try to wipe them off.
You plug your tuner or set-top box into the Revue and connect the Revue’s HDMI output to your TV or A/V receiver. The Revue passes the set-top box’s video via its own HDMI output, overlaying its graphical user interface on top. If your A/V receiver isn’t equipped with HDMI, it is possible to make a digital audio connection utilizing an optical cable; if your TV isn’t equipped with HDMI, you’ll want an adapter or a special cable. For the throng looking to cut ties to pay-TV service providers in favor of over-the-air and Internet TV, the Revue is pretty significantly useless.
Some of the Revue’s shortcomings are caused by third parties who fear Google TV will siphon away the inventory that’s the primary source of their advertising revenue: The ABC, CBS, and NBC television networks, for example, are blocking Google TV, so the Revue can’t stream these networks’ TV shows over the Net. Hulu is doing the same thing. That doesn’t stop you from watching them live or recording them on your DVR to watch later, but you don’t need Google TV to do that.
You are able to turn your TV into a video-conferencing system by plugging Logitech’s TV Cam into one of the Revue’s USB ports.
But Logitech and Google have also stumbled on delivering some of the other promises they’ve made for Google TV. The Revue has various embedded applications, such as Google’s Chrome browser, Netflix, Napster, Amazon Video-on-Demand, and Pandora. We’d argue that these very first two apps are the most significant, and we believe they’re severely gimped: The browser has no address bar, as an example. In case you wish to navigate directly to a site, you must sort the URL into a search box and then pick out the link from the results. And whilst the browser supports several windows, you will find no tabs and you’re limited to four (open a fifth plus the initial window silently disappears).
The Revue’s GUI is overlaid on top of the video signal coming into its HDMI input.
The Netflix client, meanwhile, supports HD streaming, but not 5.1-channel surround sound. What’s worse is that you can’t manage your “watch instantly” queue from here; you should navigate to your Netflix account utilizing the browser (or a PC), instead. As for the music apps, you can find plenty of cheaper alternatives; and do you seriously want to tie up your TV to listen to music?
This awesome Logitech Revue keyboard is the Revue’s very best feature; it’s a shame there is not some thing like it for home-theater PCs.
On the bright side, you don’t need to open the browser to conduct a search, you just hit the search button on the keyboard and open a little search bar at the top of the screen. That’s cool. Searches include data (and media) on the internet and on your service provider’s program guide (so it is possible to set up programs you wish to record). Should you have a Dish DVR, you may search programs you’ve already recorded, too. If you’re performing this whilst watching TV, it is possible to shrink the TV window to a quarter of the screen to browse the outcomes. It is possible to do the same whilst utilizing some of the apps. That’s pretty cool too, but the reality that you can’t move the picture-in-picture window out of the lower appropriate corner is just stupid, due to the fact it blocks a quarter of the page you’re attempting to read.
The keyboard’s battery compartment does triple duty as as a riser along with a handle.
As we said in our opener, the keyboard is nearly ideal. There are just two questionable design decisions: Initial and foremost, the keys are not backlit, rendering the device tough to use in darkened room. Second, the keyboard does not have an infrared emitter and relies solely on RF signals to communicate with the Revue base unit. The base unit does have an IR blaster, and Logitech provides a second cabled IR blaster (along with a port on the back of the base unit for another one), but this could be a problem if there’s any real distance between your TV and your A/V receiver, set-top box, and other gear.
Apart from those criticisms, we love the keyboard. It uses Logitech’s exceptional Harmony universal remote technology and on the internet code database, so it must be capable of controlling just about anything in your entertainment center. It’s thin, lightweight, and provides precisely the appropriate quantity of tactile feedback. It has dedicated buttons to power on and off the Revue, your A/V receiver, and your TV; to switch the set-top box between live TV, the program guide, and the DVR; to adjust or mute the volume; and to perform searches. It’s also outfitted with a rather responsive trackpad for cursor control, a D-pad for scrolling web pages and navigating the menus on DVR, a back button, and transport buttons (play, record, pause, skip forward, and skip back). Finally, it’s the ideal size for typing on your lap, and it easily balances on the armrest of your sofa or recliner when you’re not making use of it. In reality, we hope Logitech creates a backlit version with an IR blaster for PCs. Should you have an iPhone or an Android phone, you’ll be able to also install an app that will control the Revue via your Wi-Fi network.
If you’re looking to dump pay TV, we think you’d be a lot greater off using a home-theater PC (in the event you want full-blown TV-Internet integration), a cheap netbook (if you just want Net access although you watch TV), or 1 of the inexpensive media streamers from the likes of ViewSonic, Western Digital, or Roku (when you just want Netflix and media streaming). In reality, we could say the same for most men and women who have no intention of dumping pay TV.visit:http://www.logitechrevuekeyboard.com
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