Logitech officially drops Revue price to $99 today, clarifies 'more returns than sales' remark

[Noodles]

Google TV not worth 300 bones to ya? How's about a cool Benjamin? As promised, Logitech has slashed the price of its Revue set-top box from $299 to $99 on its own site and at retailers like Best Buy, giving prospective customers something awfully tempting to consider alongside the prospect of running Honeycomb on their TV right away. Oh, and the much-reported nugget from its earnings about "returns exceeding sales"? It should probably be noted that wasn't about returns from end users, which the company claims "have averaged at levels comparable to other Logitech products", but from the distributors and retailers it sells most of its hardware to. So, you in, or are you still holding out for the 90 percent off sale that may or may not ever materialize?

[tajlund]

Nice

[Mavericks]

The content blocking is a huge part of why it did not do well, but in fairness it's just as much the fault of the OS as it was the content providers. I bought one at launch for $299, and although there are lots of things to like about it, overall the interface was way too cumbersome to be useful. as far as I could tell, all of the problems could be solved with a massive software update, but that hasn't happened yet - and until it does it would be hard to recommend to people even at $99.

[tajlund]

Are these hackable to run an unaltered version of Android?