Sirius XM Coming to Google TV
With the Google I/O developer conference set to kickoff in just a few hours, Sirius XM has told Reuters it will be offering its entire programming lineup on Google TV.
The new app for Google TV will have the same great features and online only content Sirius XM rolled out to its mobile and web users earlier this year including pause, rewind, skip, and time-shifted playback of up to five hours of radio.
There is no word yet on what the app will look like or even exact release date. All we know is SiriusXM worked closely with Google on this project and we can expect to see the new app go live, alongside Pandora and Slacker, some time “this summer.”
Fans will be excited to know, this new app will finally put Sirius XM into Google TV equipped televisions manufactured by big names like Sony, LG, and Vizio. The only bad news, according to analysts, is that Google TV has failed to gain traction with consumers.
We can only hope some traction gaining news is on the way from Google I/O developer conference today but, even if there isn’t, it’s good to finally see Sirius XM taking the low cost high reward road to get its service in front of as many people as possible, while adding value to its current paying subscribers.
With Google TV in the bag, it only makes sense to expect Sirius XM is getting ready to move onto even more household products, like wildly popular, Netflix-subscriber-building, Microsoft Xbox.
[via Reuters]
It’s about time everyone sees that Sirius XM icon, on every device with a speaker capable of playing music, right next to the Pandora’s and Slacker’s of the world!
I don’t know why they didn’t go after xbox first after what that promo did for Netflix. I’m pretty sure they added something like a million new subscribers in a matter of months. At the time, they only had 9 million subs so, it was a 10%+ boost for one little interface.
Does anyone even own a Google TV? If so, do you use it? I don’t doubt that there are a few out there but, I have never seen one. Apple TV, Roku, Xbox yes, Google TV not so much.
Remember when there was one kind of TV and everyone had the same black cable box and the same black remote? We have come a long way in a short number of years.
I have google tv but I doubt I will use this much. My audio reciever has Sirius XM online support, but I know google tvs will be nicer.