Google TV still needs to evolve and is not as polished as we wish it was, though there has been major improvement. We can say it is not the smoothest and most user-friendly just yet, so we have decided to start a new series of articles pointing out Google TV’s flaws and needs. This happens to be the first one, but there will definitely be more to come.

How can we expect a media device to fulfill its purposes without sufficient internal storage? Google TV is sitting in the middle of your living room and it is meant to be the center of entertainment, but you can’t put a few HD movies in it without having to purchase a flash drive or external hard drive? Sounds a bit ridiculous to me.

I fully understand Google’s idea of the connected TV – we are meant to stream content. The problem is most users are not completely ready to let go of physical storage. This is why Redbox is so successful, the market is not ready to go full-speed ahead with streaming and cloud services just yet (Redbox’s prices also help).

Most Google TVs have between 4 and 8 GB of internal storage. This is insane. We have smartphones with 64 GB of internal storage, but we can’t put some good internal storage in a Google TV? Once again… this is the living room’s center of media entertainment we are talking about!

We shouldn’t need to purchase an external hard drive to keep a reasonable amount of songs and movies in our Google TVs. At the very least we could have better external storage integration. Maybe an SD or microSD card slot? Something that is a bit more discrete than a USB flash drive or an external HDD.

Manufacturers, we would appreciate some options with more internal storage. Even if they happen to cost a bit more. The first Google TV partner to bring at least a 32 GB hard drive will have quite a bit of attention from Google TV fans. Would you go out of your way to buy a Google TV device with more internal storage?