Yesterday, Smart announced a new online TV service called Smart Bro SurfTV. SurfTV turns your ordinary TV set at home into an internet appliance.
Smart Bro SurfTV is a device that connects to a television set and gives it access to the internet any where in the Philippines (well, as long as you have 3G coverage).
You basically plug the device into the RCA port of a color TV set. Smart Bro SurfTV then turns the set into a ready-to-run “internet appliance” where users can surf, chat, and email — through a multi-tasking TV.
Smart Bro SurfTV comes in a boxed set complete with a keyboard, a mouse, a remote control, and a Smart Bro USB stick-type modem with a prepaid SIM, pre-loaded with Php100 worth of load. The entire kit costs only Php4,500 and additional internet access costs Php10 for every 30 minutes.
Not yet sure what it can or cannot do compared to, say, a regular desktop (like how it handles downloaded files, etc.). We’ll just have to wait for the review unit to arrive before we can get more details.
Twitter: dforthster
says:
ok lang ito pag di malaki tv mo, mga about 14″. Anyway pwede din ba tayo mag install d2?kaso d2 samin nasa tapat ng tower ng smart patay patay nga lang ang internet connection. bakit kaya?
[...] etc.), and current channels. You can also surf on basic sites. This product reminds me a lot of Smart Bro Surf TV and the Apple TV product. Anyway, here’s the online promotional video for Google [...]
Cool features. Would love to own one now. Appreciate the makers of it. Awesome!
Cool features. Would love to own one now. Appreciate the makers of it. Awesome!
I don’t think that this device is as cool as it sounds. reading from the features describes, it looks like just a low cost pc to me. It never mentioned that the tv signal will come from or the device recieves tv programs it will just use your tv set as a monitor. it is pc that the video output is in RCA,composite video, instead of VGA output that is usually use to connects to your computer monitor.
SurfTV = watching YouTube on iPhone, not so good quality and on a slower bandwidth (wireless)
GoogleTV = watching YouTube on a computer, better quality and have option to be on a faster bandwidth (wired)
Mythbuntu = using a computer with an LCD TV, full internet access. YouTube, Internet TV, Torrent, Etc…
I’d like to have one since I’m so tired about my computer now. But I wonder if it also provide some functions comuputer contributed