Prefix: As many people, I was raised with digital gadgets, game consoles, personal computers… The OSes were evolution of the digial age, where the market forces, and people innovation, led to their development.  One of my hobbies is to collect and find different Operating System that can run on either a computer/standalown or TV devices. On these first game consoles was the OS that ran the game console cartridge game, and had to follow a certain code to fit the game console, in order to run properly.

I would like to focus in this post on the latest that was put to the market, and that I just recently was impressed from. There was an explosion of ideas, on both software and hardware markets, now days you can find  enhanced machines running the google android OS, on cheap and very powerful devices — That both very cheap to purchase, and very strong with computing powers.

Google Android OS: The definition of the google android OS, is that it’ll be opensource. That single fact enables one to copy and distribute the a flavor of the OS on different devices — as long as they follow the google distribution guide lines… and following the opensource community and the leading edge of google — that enable to develop variation of devices that use the android OS.

StreamBox: One of the stream boxes functionality,  is to stream media video/audio from your LAN or WEB sources to your tv (or any other device that the streambox can connect to). The cheapest stream box, is called an android dongle — That include the android os – with different I/O in it (such as a USB or HDMI connector) to connect to the web, or store internal media.

Dongle Embedded: Some of the TV out there from different manufacturers include a dongle embedded into the tv. But I find it very comfortable using a cheap device with tremendous ability  to put its functionality in any TV device that has the proper input connectors to connect to your ‘droid dongle.

Android Functionality: The android OS can not be missed from today’s news, it is everyone, every now and then there are malefactors  that put to the market their device that runs with the android OS. As an operating system, it enable you to load and put many different ‘apps’ that enhance the functionality of the device. And the different hardware introduced the functionality in different ways.. As each one of them got their HID (Human Interface Device) attached such as touch screen, physical keyboard, or game controls…

Competitors: As this market evolve other producers of OSes such as: Microsoft OS, or variation of Linux OSes flavors — will introduce their flavor of their OS to compete with the Google android OS.