What is Android TV?

Android TV is a TV tuner box, a Media player, a Netbook, a digital photo frame, a game console and a internet set-top, it provides a new television entertainment and brings you very powerful internet TV experience

Android is an open source system, free for manufactures to use
Users can use set top box device with Android TV feature to make your home TV an internet TV
With Android TV, you can view and download several of videos and games to make home TV more than a TV

A full HD support media box with internet connection and HDMI output bases on Android 2.2, Geniatech Android TV provides you the capability of all-in-one box entertainment box on your big TV screen.

ATV300: Android TV Nano
ATV1000: Android TV Basic
ATV2000: Android TV Pluse, with TV tuner support
- ATV2000T: DVB-T
- ATV2000S: ISDB-T
- ATV2000D: DMB-TH
ATV3000: with HDD bay inside
ATV4000: with TV tuner and HDD bay
- ATV4000T: DVB-T
- ATV4000S: ISDB-T
- ATV4000D: DMB-TH

Build in Android 2.2
Google Browser inside, Flash 10.1 support
MediaPlayer
Gmail
3D games, Games without using touch input
eMagazine, eBook, Newspaper
Internet Video/Audio/Radio/TV
Import APK files from SD card
File Share via LAN/WLAN to PC
All non-mobile phone application without micphone for Android applications can be used
Build in 3.5/2.5” SATA slot for hard drive (only ATV 3000, 4000)
Build in digital TV tuner for digital receiving (only ATV 2000, 4000)
Live TV PVR (only ATV 2000, ATV 4000)

Hardware decoding:
- Video: Mpeg2, H.264, VC-1 1080P
- Audio: Mp3, Wma, Ogg, Wave
TV receiption: DVBT, ATSC, ISDBT, DMB-Th (ATV2000 and ATV4000 only)
CPU: ARM Contex A9, 800Mhz, 3D engine
RAM: 256MB DDR2
ROM: 512MB, up to 8GB
Power: 110-240, 1A Æ DC 12V 2A
HDMI output: HDMI 1.3

5 USB 2.0, 2 external, 3 internal
SDHC Slot
HDMI 1.3 output
100/10M Ethernet
Wifi 802.11a/b/g/n (option)
Line out via RCA
IR remote control receiver
Portable wireless keyboard and touch pad (option)
Can use any wireless keyboard and mouse
RF input (only ATV 2000, 4000) for Digital TV (DVBT, ATSC, ISDBT, DTMB coming soon)

Watch Unlimited Internet Contents and HDTV on your Current TV

Box for TV: Make Home TV Smart and Connected

Digtal TV receiver

Skipping on down...

Operating System ANDROID 2.2

This Geniatech Android TV box builted in the Android 2.2 Operating system which provides better performance and more APK support
Support for file upload fields in the Browser application
Support for installing applications to the expandable memory
Adobe Flash 10.1 support
Support for extra high DPI screens (320 dpi), such as 4" 720p

CPU

The powerful 1GHz Cortex A9 CPU allows users to run multi tasks during surfing the internet, and switching between different applications

Storage

Memory: DDRII 512M
Storage: 2GB NAND
SD Card: up to 32GB
USB interface: support large capacity mobile HDD
Both Internal HDD and external HDD are supported

Wireless/Wired network

Rj45 network connection interface.
Supports wired network connection, built-in WIFI module

2.4G Wireless QWERT Remote with Mouse Operation

Now you can enjoy the stereo audio and clear video reception anywhere in the house or office without having to run wires thru the walls or under carpets by using this wireless A/V transmitter kit.

Option wireless Keyboard+Mouse:
1. IR remote without mouse as the default
2. IR remote with mouse function
3. 2.4G qwert keyboard with motion mouse
4. 2.4G qwert keyboard with trackball mouse

Read More...
http://www.geniatech.com/pa/android-tv.asp

Interesting... I noticed that the hardware Specs are about the same as two old P3 PC's that I have around the house. Well, except I don't have 512mb of ram for them, more like 195 to 300mb. I've been looking for a Linux OS that could turn them into Media PC's. And I know that there is an Android-x86 Project - Run Android on Your PC. I don't have an HD-TV yet. So, all I need is S-Video or RF outputs to my TV's and those Video Cards are cheep now a-days. Hmmm... I downloaded the Android-x86 Project - Run Android on Your PC and will tried it out in Virtual Box to see if I like it... Well, Android on Your PC is not what I expected. I was expecting a trimmed down, but use-able OS. Nope, that's not what you get with android-x86-2.2-generic.iso or android-x86-2.2-eeepc.iso. The android-x86-2.2-eeepc.iso is recommended for use in VirtualBox on this page, http://www.android-x86.org/documents/virtualboxhowto). But I could see no difference in either and x86-2.2-generic.iso or android-x86-2.2-eeepc.iso is mentioned as preferred by davematthew in his notes on the same page. All there is when you Boot them in VirtualBox, is a Desktop that does nothing. The only two things that even respond are the volume Icon and a Lock Icon and all they do is jump a little when you click on them. There is the Time showing, which does change, so it seems to work, but in Military Time. I had already spent about 2 hours Yesterday, on the Android Sites. Figuring out how thing work and finding the ISO files to download. So, I didn't feel like messing with it any more. There are instructions on how to upload and get music to play on this page, http://www.android-x86.org/documents/virtualboxhowto. Which I didn't find until today. It takes allot of command line work in Debug Mode to get it to work. I can already tell that Android-x86, is not what I'm looking for to build my Media PC's. So, Now I know...

Don

Here's more info and links to...

Android-x86 - Porting Android to x86

Android-x86 Project - Run Android on Your PC

This is a project to port Android open source project to x86 platform, formerly known as "patch hosting for android x86 support". The original plan is to host different patches for android x86 support from open source community. A few months after we created the project, we found out that we could do much more than just hosting patches. So we decide to create our code base to provide support on different x86 platforms, and set up a git server to host it.

This is an open source project licensed under Apache Public License 2.0. If you think we did something great, consider making a donation.

What is new?

Read More...
http://www.android-x86.org/

Android-x86 - Porting Android to x86

Build 20110101

Test build 20110101 for Android-x86 2.2 (Froyo-x86).

The Android-x86 project is glad to announce a new test build 20110101 for public testing. This is a release candidate for android-x86 2.2 stable release. Live CD ISOs are available from our sites, as usual

Key Features

The test build is based on the Android 2.2 (Froyo branch). We fixed and added many x86 specified code to let the system runs smoothly on x86 platforms, especially for netbooks or tablets. The key features contain

Kernel 2.6.35.7 with KMS enabled. Most netbooks can run Android-x86 in the native resolution.
Hardware OpenGL acceleration for Intel integrated graphic chipsets. It is turned on by default if the i915 driver is available. However, if you have trouble with it, you can disable it by adding HWACCEL=0 to the cmdline. (by olv from 0xlab)
Wifi and Ethernet support. Both are configured from the GUI.
Support 3G USB modem with auto-configuration.
A new text based GUI installer which supports ext3/ext2/ntfs/fat32 filesystems. The installer now supports read-write mode, as well as a tool to create a fake sdcard.
Bluetooth support for builtin device and external bluetooth dongle.
Keyboard layout is configurable. To use it, you have to install Android-x86 to harddisk and reboot after changing the setting.
External usb drive and sdcard are auto mounted on plugging.
Add touch features to simulate Home/Menu/Back keys, useful for touchscreen only devices.
Add software mouse cursor. Mouse wheel is also supported.
Compressed filesystem (squashfs).
MirBSD Korn Shell (mksh) is added to replace android's dumb sh.
Touchscreen calibration.
Battery status percentage.
AndAppStore client 1.6.8.

Released Files
Read More...
http://www.android-x86.org/releases/build-20110101

Documentation‎ > ‎

Installation

by Chih-Wei Huang (cwhuang) 2009/08/19
Last updated: 2010/10/19

Introduction

We have implemented an easy installer to install Android-x86 to a harddisk. The supported filesystems are

ext3

ext2

ntfs

fat32

You can install Android-x86 to an NTFS filesystem to co-exist with Windows. See the Advanced section for details.

Step by step

Burn the iso image to cdrom, or create a bootable USB disk (recommended). See the Advanced section for details.

Boot from the Android-x86 installation CD/USB, choose the 'Install Android to harddisk' item, as show below

Read More...
http://www.android-x86.org/documents/installhowto

Note that the Android OS for Phones, Wont Work on PC's.

But if you have the right Phone, you can download it and install it on your Phone...

Building for devices

This page complements the main page about Building with information that is specific to individual devices.

The only supported devices are Nexus S, a.k.a. "crespo", and Nexus S 4G, a.k.a. "crespo4g". Nexus S is the recommended device to use with the Android Open-Source Project. Nexus One a.k.a. "passion" is experimentatal and unsupported. Android Developer Phones (ADP1 and ADP2, a.k.a. "dream" and "sapphire") are obsolete, were experimental and unsupported in froyo, and can't be used with gingerbread.