With Remote, it is possible to watch a video on an Android phone, stop it midway through, and transfer the video, stopped at that point, to a Google TV box.

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Despite a number of demos through the years, the Intel-powered TV boxes that have landed in our living rooms so far have been the first gen Google TV and Boxee Box units.

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In 2011, Logitech announced that it experienced more returns than sales for its Google TV-based set top box, the Logitech Revue.

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Samsung also announced that it would make a Google TV set and a set-top box, both of which can run Adobe's software but not Hulu's.

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Sony stopped selling Google TV sets and instead opted for a companion box.

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In a world where TV is the next frontier, Google had two offerings: Google TV and, after the acquisition of Motorola, one of the largest set top box manufacturers in the world with the Motorola Home business.

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In the future, Microsoft could also license Kinect software to TVs and cable set-top box makers just like Google embeds its Android software in TVs to come out with Google TV.

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This, in the end, may be the reason Google is letting go (and could also signal that Cisco will soon sell its own TV set top box unit) as Asian competitors may be turning set top boxes into commodities.

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