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As an English guy living in California, I have a lot to be thankful for—the weather, the food, the national parks—but one thing I really miss is watching my kind of sports like soccer, rugby, and cricket (not croquet, which a lot of my friends think I’m talking about).
Google TV is helping me get over that one last burden. Some matches are on TV, but used to be difficult to find: you had to scroll through the channels to look for your league, then scroll through all the games to see if your team was being broadcast; now I do a quick Google search for “Tottenham” (my favorite team) and find that the game immediately.
As an English guy living in California, I have a lot to be thankful for—the weather, the food, the national parks—but one thing I really miss is watching my kind of sports like soccer, rugby, and cricket (not croquet, which a lot of my friends think I’m talking about).
Google TV is helping me get over that one last burden. Some matches are on TV, but used to be difficult to find: you had to scroll through the channels to look for your league, then scroll through all the games to see if your team was being broadcast; now I do a quick Google search for “Tottenham” (my favorite team) and find that the game immediately.
Photo by: Ryan Marshman
For the whole of March I will be in heaven, because the ICC Cricket World Cup is airing on willow.tv. As a DISH Network subscriber, I can also watch the games in full HD at their regular time, which I wasn’t expecting to be able to do in the US. Unfortunately, sometimes the games are in the middle of the night, but willow.tv also hosts every game (in full and in highlight form), so I can watch them whenever is convenient. They are even working to optimize the site for the 10-foot viewing experience.
When I get home tonight, I can use Google TV to watch the highlights from all today’s games on the best screen in the house. I can even use Dual View to read the analysis by my old friend Andrew Miller while I watch the game.
Posted by Peter Sherman, Google TV Marketing, Recently Watched "Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education"
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