Taipei, Friday, December 26, 2014 11:51 (GMT+8) Tom Lo,
DIGITIMES Research, Taipei [Tuesday 1 July 2014]  During Google
I/O 2014, the Internet giant introduced Android TV as the
successor of Google TV and added new features into its
Chromecast. Digitimes Research believes that Android TV did not
resolve the difficulties that Google TV faces, but only
resembles the giant's return to the TV business. Chromecast's
new features are expected to add social applications onto the
device, increasing users' attachment to the product and start
benefiting Android-based handheld devices.  Android TV's main
functions include voice search on video, video recommendation,
OTT and games. Some of the functions are improvements from the
defects of the first-generation Google TV, but most of them were
already being adopted in the second-generation Google TV or some
vendors' Smart TVs.  For example, voice search and the video
recommendation are able to improve Google TV's drawbacks on the
keyboard input usage experience, but the f