14 DAY TRIAL // A few days ago the whole Web was plagued with reports that said Logitech has instructed Gigabyte to suspend the production of its Google-TV enabled Revue STB until early 2011, the Swiss company just making an official statement regarding this situation that reads “all's well with Logitech Revue.”
The rumors, that popped out at the beginning of this week, stated that Logitech has instructed Gigabyte Technology (the manufacturer in charge with building their STB) to stop Revue production until Google updates or releases a new version of its software platform.
However, a recently published blog post from Ashish Arora, vice president and general manager at Logitech Digital Home Group, reads, “Those familiar with our product know that we don’t need to modify the Logitech Revue box to deliver software enhancements.
Each of our customers will receive periodic over-the-air updates whenever Google and Logitech release changes to the Google TV platform.
Logitech Revue boxes purchased at launch in October, as a holiday gift in December or to follow basketball in the spring, will all be the same and will all benefit from the same software updates,” wrote Mr. Arora.
Although this sounds like good news indeed for Logitech, the statement doesn't say anything about the Revue production plans and just points out something we already knew about Google TV.
As we already reported, it is highly probable that the Swiss company was forced to stop Revue production for a while in order to deal with the increased stocks that are available on the market, as many analysts claim that the Google TV adoption rate has been under the search giant's (and its partners) expectations.
This way, Logitech will be able to adjust its stocks without creating any shortages, manufacturing following to be resumed once they manage to sell most of the already built Revue units.
Lately, Google TV went through some pretty rough waters, rumors suggesting Google has instructed companies that planned to showcase new solution built on top of their interactive TV platform at CES 2011 to postpone their introduction until a further date.
This added to the mixed reviews received by the platform upon its launch and to all the troubles faced by Google with Hollywood movie studios that have been reluctant to make their content available on this platform. (via SlashGear)