Foreword When designing Google TV, we wanted to address some of the pain points we had experienced as television viewers. We all had our own favorite TV shows; we enjoyed friends coming over to watch the Super Bowl; we loved watching movies on a large screen in the comfort of our homes. Yet, we knew that many of the TV shows and movies produced never find their way through traditional distribution channels to our living rooms. We wanted to bring the infinite shelf space provided by the Internet to television, carrying with it all of the TV shows and movies ever produced. We also wanted to make it dead simple to find something great to watch, whether from a TV channel or Internet source. Last but not least, we wanted the big screen in our living rooms to be more than a TV. We wanted it to be a space