The Revue lets users search for things they're interested in, whether it's an actor's name, sports team, or channel name, and pulls up content from the Web as well as where it's playing on television. If you use a USB video camera, the also turns your TV into a video-chat monitor.

While the price drop results from the fact that than sold, Christina Bonnington for Wired wrote, "It's not totally clear why users were returning the unit." Indeed, while Revue has had some problems such as TV network sites blocking the unit's Chrome browser from playing their content, when PC World reviewed the a few months ago the fared as well as three of them, including the .

During an earnings conference call the other day when acting Logitech CEO Guerrino De Luca discussed disappointing earnings due in part to sluggish Revue sales, he said while the company should have done a few things differently, "Engaging with Google was the right thing to do," reports . Time Techland's Jared Newman, for his part, offered for making Google TV more palatable for consumers.

It remains to be seen whether the new price entices more people to bring Google into the living room. But it also is worth noting that Google TV will get new software at the end of September with access to the Android market.

"It's a major update to the platform. It's what the platform should always have been, particularly the addition of the App Store for Android apps for the TV. The good news is that all these beautiful new things will run on the existing box," De Luca said, according to ZDNet.