Google's open source Android operating system to be ported to high-def TV's?

If you're not familiar with Google's Android operating system, it's an open source, free-to-use OS originally built for mobile phones and used with T-Mobile's popular G1. Several other handset manufacturer's are currently working on Android-based phones hoping for higher profit margins resulting from the free nature of the software. At CES recently, several prototype web tablets and netbooks were also on display running Android.

But could you imagine an HDTV with a customized version of the Android operating system?

From The Wall Street Journal:

Mr. Horowitz added that he is aware of companies trying to translate Android -- whose software is open source, making it easier to customize -- to devices that aren't phones, like netbooks (a new breed of low-end portable computers), or televisions, but declined to go into details.

Mr. Horowitz is Steve Horowitz, the engineer hired back in 2006 to spearhead Android's development. He seems to indicate that one or more television makers are hard at work trying to port Android to televisions. Definitely something we have to keep our eyes on!

Via WSJ

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