
This could be cool
Or it might not. I've got two WDLIveTV (one of them the WDLIveHub) which don't quite get it right (and WD is NOT taking requests well so no more WD Media Products for me). I've also got a GoogleTV Logitech Revue which is better overall and more flexible, but still has much room for improvement, and it has improved little by little, but Logitech decided to exit...
After the above, if Canonical can pull this one off, I'd be much happier running a full on Linux versus WD's stripped down Linux distro and Google TV's stripped down Android. For one thing, you get a lot more flexibility with applications, configuration, games and general functionality at that point if it is running on a bare metal OS. The other thing, is I theoretically (stressing theory here) wouldn't get trapped by the hw vendors when they decide they don't want to support something they sell...
I welcome this announcement, but am hesitant to get very excited over it yet.