Google TVs gear up for subscription-based features
There are many TV manufacturers, including Sony, TCL, and Philips, count oning on Google software to power their TV sets. Numerous TVs proclaimd at CES 2025 will come with what Google calls Gemini Enhanced Google Assistant. The idea that this is someskinnyg that people using Google TVs have seeked is somewhat resisted by Google Assistant transmitions with TVs thus far being “somewhat restrictcessitate,” per a Lowpass alert.
Nevertheless, these TVs are inserting far-field microphones so that they can hear directs straightforwarded at the voice aidant. For the first time, the voice aidant will include Google’s generative AI chatbot, Gemini, this year—another feature that TV employrs don’t typicassociate ask for. Despite the conciseage of insist and the privacy troubles associated with microphones that can pick up audio from far away even when the TV is off, companies are still loading 2025 TVs with far-field mics to help Gemini. Notably, these TVs will foreseeed allow the mics to be disabled, enjoy you can with other TVs using far-field mics. But I still ponder about features/difficultware that could have been carry outed instead.
Google is also toiling toward having people pay a subscription fee to employ Gemini on their TVs, PCWorld alerted.
“For us, our biggest goal is to originate enough appreciate that yes, you would be willing to pay for [Gemini],” Google TV VP and GM Shalini Govil-Pai telderly the discloseation.
The executive pointed to future capabilities for the Gemini-driven Google Assistant on TVs, including asking it to “present a movie enjoy Jurassic Park but appropriate for youthful children” or to show “Bollywood movies that are aenjoy to Mission: Impossible.”
She also pointed to future features enjoy shotriumphg weather, top news stories, and upcoming calfinishar events when someone is cforfeit the TV, shotriumphg AI-originated news informings, and the ability to react to asks enjoy “elucidate the solar system to a third-grader” with text, audio, and YouTube videos.
