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Vizio Co-Star Google TV box review and tweak

DeviceGuru.com: “Google has promised a world of entertainment with its Google TV platform, claiming it can bring most any multimedia content to users’ TVs, through thousands of user-installable Android apps plus a full-featured Web browser. In this in-depth review, we’ll see how close Vizio’s Co-Star Google TV adapter box comes to meeting those high expectations…”

“Like the earlier Logitech Revue, the Co-Star’s Google TV software platform integrates the streaming of movies, TV shows, and music from Internet and local sources, offers access to news, weather, games, and Web surfing, and provides various live TV features, including picture-in-picture display and a searchable smart program guide.

On the hardware side, the Co-Star is much smaller than the Revue, uses less power, and can be turned on and off via its remote control. The photo below shows the device’s connections, which include Ethernet, HDMI in and out, USB, and power….”

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