Slides from a presentation by Jason Grigsby about smart TV. The key problem with Smart TV right now: you can't know whether or what you're supplying content to.

Sony will start selling Google TV-based products in Europe in September, according to a report by Les Echos.</p><p>

The site reports comments by Sony France marketing director Stephane Labrousse that the CE maker will sell two devices: A set-top box which will go on sale for €200 ($266) and a box with an integrated Blu-ray player that will sell for €300 ($399).

UK launch also at the same time, it suggests.

Ex-Flickr core, now Guardian developer Dan Catt explains how and why and where and what he did the Guardian's Google TV project. (Note: he ignored the spellcheck on "cognitive".)

Some neat digging around in Android Market stats yields that nifty data.

Still, the numbers clearly show that Google has some work to do. Even if you take into account that active devices don’t equal sold devices, it’s obvious that others have been doing far better. Apple has sold 4.2m Apple TV units, and Roku — despite missing its own sales goals — was able to sell 2.5m boxes by the end of last year.

(Also: should we quibble about whether "less" is correct over "fewer"?)

At one point, according to sources with knowledge of the events, the presenter [at CES] was explaining the different ways to find content within Google TV: You can go through a “Shows and Movies” app that catalogs offerings from Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, etc., or else you can use standard browser-based Google Search. Murdoch asked what would happen if he were to search for a particular blockbuster film, and the presenter explained that the results would be the same ones you’d find in any Google search. Including links to content-pirating sites? Murdoch pressed. Yes, unless those sites have already been removed from search results in response to takedown requests, the presenter confirmed.

Murdoch took exception to that answer. Then he took to Twitter.

Given his existing antipathy to Google, unsurprising.

"...While it’s clear that the CE industry needs to do something to fight fragmentation between the dozen or so smart TV platforms, it seems unlikely that Google TV will be its savior in the near future. Google might have more partners than it did a year ago, but they’re hardly adopting the platform en masse. Unless something drastic happens, don’t expect that to change anytime soon."

"According to Nielsen Media Research’s annual “Television Audience” report that was released this week, the number of households with a TV set will decline for the first time in the company’s survey history (which extends back to 1970). Entertainment Weekly reports.

"The rising trend of TV ownership has been leveling off in recent years, and now the number has dropped from 115.9m homes in 2011 to an estimated 114.7m in 2012. As TV Barn pointed out, that’s a 1% decline despite the number of households rising."

This is where Guerrino De Luca, Logitech's chairman, announces that there isn't going to be a followup to the Google TV Revue, on which it lost a giant amount (but not $100m; that's a misreading). Worth reading through (note: it's a PDF) for other notes about the PC market and which users Logitech is targeting in the western PC market. The answer is really surprising.

"According to Infonetics, Motorola Mobility was the leader in set-top box revenues last year, and was also tops in hybrid IP/QAM set-top boxes — that is, the boxes used by operators like Verizon that combine broadcast TV and over-the-top applications. By leveraging Motorola’s position with carriers, Google can better solidify its bid to expand Google TV and Android into the living room."