Logitech revue software upgrade

Revue customers began to agitate for the update as weeks went by with no word from Logitech as to the firmware release date. Some customers loudly complained on Logitech forums while other customers urged patience so that Logitech could "get it right" and avoid the issues it faced with the initial firmware.

Confusion ensued when Logitech began shipping Revue units with a "new and improved" sticker on the outside of the box, leading the company to issue a clarification that the sticker on the outside of the box did not mean that the Revue unit inside the box actually had the next version of Google TV software.

When the firmware update began rolling out early this week, however, all attention turned to the anticipated full release of Google TV 2. Joy and delight soon turned to dismay as it became apparent to Revue users that Logitech had chosen not to support the full features of Google TV 2. To learn more about the limitations of the firmware update , we tested Sony and Logitech Revue units side-by-side with a set of video files, probing to find where Logitech had failed to implement Google TV 2.

The setup and basic formats used can be found at Transitions' Workflowed blog. One of the biggest limitations found is the lack of support for transport streams. Our first thought was that Logitech had chosen a more limited chipset that could not support the MPEG-2 codec used in traditional DVDs and that this limitation led to the decision not to support transport- or program-stream functionality.

Yet, a conversation with a developer of an alternate media player reveals that the Revue is not only capable of supporting MPEG-2 and transport streams, but that TS and MPEG-2 support were available in a pre-release version of Honeycomb that could be loaded on to the Revue hardware.

In addition, it appears that an older version of the media player capabilities was listed on Logitech's page as recently as December 11 after the roll-out of the new Revue software update but has since been removed.

We asked Alexander about his initial attempts at getting the Revue to play the test content used for the Workflowed blog tests, based on a few comments he'd made on a Google TV hacker site where he mentioned transport streams and M2TS several times during his initial Honeycomb testing in early October:.

This leaked beta natively supported all formats listed on Google's support page except DTS sound. The Alabama coach's Crimson Tide lost to Georgia in the national championship game. Klay Thompson had a very Klay-like reaction to not getting the ball on an open-look in transition.

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