Skip to main content
  1. Home
  2. Audio / Video
  3. News

Google TV gets its first adult entertainment channel

By

Google TV now has its first porn channel – adult film studio Vivid Entertainment launched Vivid for Google TV on Monday. The channel can be accessed by those with a set-top box running Google TV and a subscription to Vivid Entertainment’s website.

A statement put out by LA-based Vivid Entertainment on Monday confirmed it was launching “the first TV app designed to make sexually explicit content available through the new Google TV set-top device.”

Recommended Videos

The adult content will include “award-winning adult movies, celebrity sex tapes, XXX parodies of popular superheroes, educational videos and other content.”

Related

Vivid co-chairman Steven Hirsch said of the new channel: “Vivid for Google TV gives our fans a new way to enjoy Vivid movies in high quality HD and with other benefits that provide a very appealing, highly enjoyable, and user friendly experience.”

Although adult material is widely available through Google’s search engine (the word “porn” just returned 1,460,000,000 hits), this is the first time explicit material has appeared on Google TV.

The company’s green light for adult content is in stark contrast to Apple’s approach to such matters. The Cupertino company blocks explicit content from its app store and Apple TV, and last year Steve Jobs, in an email exchange with a blogger, said he wanted Apple services to be free from porn. “Freedom from programs that steal your private data. Freedom from programs that trash your battery. Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom,” he wrote.

Google is no doubt hoping that widening the selection of content on Google TV will help bring in more punters to its service, one which has up until now failed to take off since its launch in October 2010. Major TV networks refusing to allow their content to be accessed is one of the main reasons for its failure to gain traction in the market.

In an effort to generate some interest in its struggling product, the Mountain View company also recently announced a complete overhaul of its Google TV interface in an effort to make it more user friendly, basing the new UI on its popular Android OS.

Editors’ Recommendations

Topics
Trevor Mogg
Trevor Mogg
Contributing Editor
Not so many moons ago, Trevor moved from one tea-loving island nation that drives on the left (Britain) to another (Japan)…
Get the best picture from your Panasonic TV: Change these settings
Panasonic TV Settings To Change

If you’ve seen Digital Trends TV reviews, you know that all of the TVs we get our hands on can produce a beautiful image. However, even the best of the best TVs don’t necessarily come out of the box that way. Before evaluation or collecting video footage, we make a few important changes to the settings to ensure that each TV produces its best possible picture. That goes for every TV brand across the board, including Panasonic.

Panasonic is back in the US market in a major way, and we’re really excited. However, its return doesn’t mean it’s a plug-and-play situation. If you want to take full advantage of what Panasonic has to offer -- especially if you have the stunning Z95A OLED -- the tweaks we’re about to suggest will make it beyond gorgeous.

Read more
This 43-inch Amazon Fire TV just dropped to it’s lowest price ever
Amazon Fire TV

For the last few years, Amazon’s low-cost 4K LEDs have offered buyers a cost-effective means of achieving good picture quality and a ton of apps for less than the rest. And, as luck would have it, we came across an excellent promo on an Amazon set while vetting through Amazon deals: 

Right now when you purchase the Amazon 43-inch Fire TV 4-Series 4K LED you’ll only pay $210. The full MSRP on this model is $370, so that's a $160 discount. This is the lowest price this TV has ever dropped to, so you don't want to miss it.

Read more
Get the best picture from your TCL TV: Change these settings
TCL TV Settings

The numbers from TV brands tell us that most people don’t change many, if any, TV settings to get the best or ideal image quality. It’s a real shame, especially when dropping big bucks on a TV, and especially if your set is a 115-inch monster like the TCL QM891G.

For big TV energy -- 85 inches and up -- it’s the little things that can make a significant difference because everything is magnified on a screen of this size. Let’s take a look at what settings can be adjusted to achieve maximum viewing joy from your TCL TV.
Turn off these automatic settings
The first thing to change: Turn off the TV’s Eco mode (in the TCL QM891G, which runs Google TV, it’s called Energy Saving). The TV may have prompted you to do this during setup, but if not, here’s how.

Read more