Now that we have the Sony Internet TV Player unboxing out of the way, its now time to do a quick tour around the hardware of the Sony Internet TV Player…. with Google TV of course!
Hardware
The unit is built with the usually high quality that Sony is known for and its actually a bit heavier that it looks but that’s due to the Blu-Ray player that comes with the unit. The casing is made of all plastic that is white with a black top that looks to be a fingerprint and dust magnet.
On the front is what you usually see with anything that has a disc player in it with a slot loading disc loader, power button, eject button, connect button to connect the remote and USB port to plug in devices you want to use with the player to watch media. There is nothing on either of the sides on the player but on the back is where are port fun begins with the IR Blaster port, HDMI in, Digital Out Optical, HDMI Out, LAN, fan exhaust, 3 USB ports and DC in jack for your power. Plenty of ports for modern TVs and HDMI only so no component, composite or S-Video available but why would you want that with HD as the main focus here.
Internally the unit is powered by an Intel processor and comes with 8GB of storage inside and Built-in Wi-Fi with wireless N for the highest wireless bandwidth for streaming content and of course the hardware is ran but the Google TV Software inside which we will get to in another video post.
Another unique aspect of the Sony Internet TV is the remote that has a full QWERTY keyboard. The controller actually feels like a video game controller in your hands and has an optical touch pad on the right side at the top of the controller to use the on-screen mouse
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Very simple but powerful hardware coming from Sony here. What will be the test is how it all ties together with Google TV software inside.
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