Sony Introduced BRAVIA Smart Stick NSZ-GU1 with Google TV Services

After the Google Chromecast TV Dongle, the Sony Electronics Corporation has introduced the Sony NSZ GU1 BRAVIA Smart Stick with Google Search, Google Play and integrated with other Google Top Services. This is actually a Smart Stick of Next Generation Smart TV Device for making it easier to use with Sony Bravia televisions for watching online programming with voice activated remote control device used with this Sony smart Stick TV Device.

This is very slim in design having 8GB of storage used via direct plugging in MHL port of Sony BRAVIA Television set with a USB Cable. It comes with Voice Activated Remote Control for having full control over Sony Bravia Smart TV Stick. The price of the smart stick is set at $149.00 in the United States at Sony online and offline stores. The live TV search option for Internet and applications is available in the Sony Smart Stick for searching the Internet with Google for Cable TV and Satellite Services with full support of Google Chrome browser having also the Adobe Flash Media Player. The BRAVIA Smart Stick has built-in applications like Netflix, Pandora, Amazon Instant Video, Google Play and YouTube for giving choice to the users to have their own choice of services for watching videos, playing games, listening music, social networking and getting the applications from Google Play Store.

The BRAVIA Smart Stick has PNP (Picture and Picture) options which gives the facility to the users to watch multiple channels at one time with multitasking operations.

Alibaba develops Smart TV OS for Shopping through TV

China’s largest online e-commerce retailer’s group Alibaba.com has develops the Smart TV OS Application which will be used for shopping. This will called the Smart TV OS by Alibaba and is different than Aliyun developed in collaboration with Wasu Media. Alibaba said also that they are in talks with Cisco, Haier and Allwinner to manufacture the set top boxes for this Smart TV OS, which will also works with smartphones to stream media.

This OS will help users for shopping from Alibaba’s Juhuasuan and making easy payments with AliPay Systems. Alibaba has already released the mobile phone operating system in year 2011. With new Smart TV OS, the users will be able to access digital content with sharing over mobile phones, shopping via their TVs with easy payments. The China’s big players of hardware manufacturing like Skyworth and Changhong are in talks with Alibaba to make the televisions supporting Alibaba’s Smart TV Operating System, however the starting will be with Wasu Media for testing and beta versions and will be called Wasu Rainbow. The price of Wasu Rainbow has not yet set by Alibaba and Wasu Media. Wasu Media will get the Internet TV License from the China Government for starting that type of services in China.

The Smart TV OS will be available for PC, Mobile and Internet Televisions and the system is basically developed by Alibaba’s subsidiary AliCloud. With this system, the users will control their TV with their smart-phones with playing video games on the television screens like Xiami Music Streaming Service and all the payments for this service will be made through AliPay.