GTVHacker shows off custom recovery for Google TVs (video)

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There's plenty of official news about [Google TV](http://www.engadget.com/tag/googletv/) this week at CES, but if you're more interested in cracking the platform wide open unofficially this video may be of interest. The GTVHacker team reveals that it has been developing an exploit that will let it run custom kernels on "most" second generation Google TV devices, along with a custom recovery designed specifically for Google TV. It' not ready for prime time just yet but in the video you can get a peek at it being loaded on a Sony [NSZ-GS7](http://www.engadget.com/tag/nsz-gs7/) box, opening up wider access to the kinds of adjustments we're already used to seeing on mobile Android devices. There's no word on when this will see wide release, but you can hit the source link for more details plus a history of what the team [has been up to](http://www.engadget.com/tag/gtvhacker/) since coming together over two years ago

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