DC made hints, earlier this week, about the possibility of a live-action Blue Beetle television show, in the form of a tweet from Geoff Johns. Those hints are getting a little clearer, now that Johns has revealed seven still shots of the title character through DC’s The Source blog.

Johns was clear about the ultimate meaning of the reveal:

This isn’t final. This isn’t greenlit. It’s only a test that was done. We still have a long way to go to see if we can get this off the ground and a lot of people to jump on board…

So, it’s sort of pie in the sky thinking. We wouldn’t be geeks if we weren’t into that. Johns says the full clip will be shown at San Diego Comic-Con. You can see the rest of the pics below.

The Google I/O developer conference continued this morning with the official announcement of Google TV, the search giant’s much anticipated foray into the televisual and attempt at revolutionizing the format. Trying to create revolutions has become something of Google’s MO, what with the hype machine driving the releases of Google Wave and the Nexus One superphone, and if you bought into that hype you might be a bit wary about buying into this latest of Google paradigm shifts. All the same, Google has clearly invested some serious thought into how to answer the now age-old question of “How do you rightly combine the computer screen with the TV screen?” And in a way that makes one wonder where the competition has been all this time.

Google and their partners have worked on a suite of hardware and software — from set-top boxes, to apps, to TVs — that will work together to make channel surfing a thing of the past and do away with those necessarily evil guide menus that most of us have gotten used to. Centering on search (this is Google after all), customers will be able to search for their preferred content via a universal search bar, save it, and come back to it whenever they please. Making use of the Android platform, the extensibility of the experience to different devices is pretty clear and only depends of developers’ imaginations as to how you might use your Android smartphone or even computer as a part of watching TV. To get a clearer idea of what I’m talking about, check out the video below.

Instead of endlessly moaning about the supposed lack of serendipity on the Internet, why can’t we try new ways to automate it? What follows is an essay proposing a way to take the wealth of classic television shows not currently on the Internet, make money for their syndicators, and adapt the serendipitous thrill of the channel surfing that we remember to the present day.

What with the satellite TVs and the YouTubes, TV test patterns may increasingly be a thing of the past, but one fan has preserved their memory in the most reverent of ways.

Peter Roof, a TV man from DC, not only has the 12″x9″ stained glass test pattern hanging in his home office, but writes, “Contact me if you want one.” Hmm…

Recently, a number of cable companies have been dropping hints about offering cellphone / wireless Internet service. So far they’ve just been baby steps, with a small test rollout here, or a limited test deployment there. But thus far, none of the CableCos really have much to show for all their talk.

But the cable companies need to think bigger, much bigger: If they do, both you and they will end up winners. Here’s why: