Commercial radio was a relatively new phenomenon in the UK when Deayton and co, then members of the Oxford Revue, launched this parody in 1979.
The Logitech Revue launched with an Android app that offers basic controls over the Revue's functions.
The Logitech Revue launched at $300 and that price is still holding strong even at retailers like Amazon amidst nearly site-wide Black Friday sales.
Engadget just posted a bunch of screenshots that appear to list the Logitech Revue's launch date as 9/29 if ordered from Dish Network, which seems to explain Google's recent Google TV giveaway at their Zeitgeist event where attendees received the product along with six months of Dish Network service.
Logitech Revue was launched with some, I wouldn't call it beta properly but a software that was not complete and not tuned to what the consumers want at the living room let alone all the issues with content delivery that the threat of the proceeds threat that Google posed us to other content providers generated.
In the same year he published a novel, A Confissão de Lúcio (Lúcio's Confession), and back in Portugal he launched the revue Orpheu in 1915 in collaboration with Fernando Pessoa, the greatest literary figure of the generation and a long-time friend and mentor to Sá-Carneiro.
Google TV is a great concept, Google TV has the potential to completely disrupt living room, except that was not the case when we launched Logitech Revue.
The Vizio device is priced at a third of what the Logitech Revue cost when it launched two years ago, and roughly in-line with Apple TV and Roku devices with similar capabilities.
The Verge notes that De Luca dismissed the first version of Google TV as "beta" software and said that Logitech, with the launch of the Revue, had "executed a full scale launch with a beta product and it cost us dearly".
At its launch, the Logitech Revue was hailed as the "TV of the future:" by bringing Google TV to televisions everywhere, the Revue, a set top box, promised it would usher in a new age of "smarter" TVs and "reinvent interaction".
