ASUS QUBE Google TV Device Showcase With Primetime - Linus Tech Tips CES 2013
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·2013-05-07
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Welcome to Linus Tech Tips at CES 2013. Our trip to the show this year is
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In the ASUS booth, they have booth suite, whatever you want to call it,
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they have the Cube. This is a Google TV
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ready device that has a lot of very, very cool stuff. So, I'm going to show
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you the cube first. This is an ARM processor. It's got 4 gigs of onboard
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storage. It's got a USB drive. It's got 1 gig of RAM. It's got Ethernet. It's
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got HDMI in and HDMI out. And that's cool. We're going to show you why
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actually. Well, it's kind of behind me already anyway, but no big deal. Uh IR
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out so you can synchronize it with uh with an IR blaster and make sure that it
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sort of acts as a hub for passing signals through to whatever else you
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need. Power in and it basically looks like well a cube. So that's
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appropriately named. More important than that is the remote. So, it's fully
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Netflix ready. Okay. It's got a touchpad
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and buttons so you can decide how exactly you want to use that there
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device. So, the home button takes Oh, yeah. It's got a full keyboard on the
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back. Did I mention that already? I'm pretty sure that I did not. It's got all
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of your main buttons that you're going to need. Your back, your uh your microphone. There's another microphone
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button here that is for controlling the device with Google Voice. Volume up,
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down, channel scroll. And now let's take
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it over to the working model that hopefully I haven't ruined. So it's
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running Android Honeycomb and they have done a custom UI here that is very
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visual. So here should I move over sort of this way. So I want you guys to look
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at this. Basically you navigate it with the remote. So you can see all of your
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uh frequently used
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if I'm not doing I might be doing this wrong somehow.
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We'll be back in a moment. I figured it out. I'm in touchpad mode.
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See, I changed it to touchpad mode when I was tinkering with it. So, let's go
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ahead and switch that out of touchpad mode. So, now we can click the buttons.
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We can navigate. We go Netflix prime time. So, prime time is Google's way of
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aggregating all of your content, whether it's web content or whether it's uh the
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actual your your TV service providers content. You can browse all that stuff.
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IMDb is on there. We're going to flip it around here. So, you got your movies,
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your games. This also is motion sensitive, so you can play motion
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control games. I actually clicked the microphone button, so I'm using Google
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Voice right now. We'll see what it comes up with here,
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guys. I was talking for a while there, but it'll do its best. Go Google. You
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know, you know, we love you. Click the microphone. So, I'm using Google Voice
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right now. See, look at that. It's like bang on. So, now I just have to go back
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so that we're not looking at that anymore. There we go. So, games, social,
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and life. So, you've got a full web browser. Chrome is on here. You can set
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things up exactly the way you want. So, TV. There we go. If I go to Here we go.
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There's the app store. I guess it's called Google Play now, not App Store.
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That's totally the wrong thing to call it at all. And now, oh, I see. So, I was
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in the education hub. So, ah, it's contextual. Very cool. On the side, it's
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totally different stuff depending on There you go. what you're looking at.
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So, let's have a look at the uh at the prime time UI.
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Okay. And last but not least, I want to show
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you guys the live TV button. So, this not only allows you to just switch to
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and watch your live TV, but also you click it. So, you go to your live TV.
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Now, you go to the home screen and it'll actually still play in the background
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while you're doing whatever it is you want to do. So, very cool stuff. And
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