“The insiders claimed that Google prioritizes searches on Google TV devices like the Sony Internet TV to favor official content over piracy, but Disney was reportedly still unhappy that it wasn’t actively blocking pirates altogether,” Electronista reports. “Google is believed to have enough control to manually hide sites from search results, but such a method wouldn’t satisfy TV networks afraid of thousands of sites going undetected.”
Electronista reports, “Only some networks and sub-networks, such as CNBC, HBO and Turner, have responded positively to Google’s requests for websites optimized for a Google TV. Fox is also believed to be on the fence and may block it later. Hulu is already blocked in free form but may come through Hulu Plus.”
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This thing is coming with way too many complications!
This thing is coming with way too many complications!
Broadcasters blocking content for Google is excellent news for Microsoft.
Broadcasters blocking content for Google is excellent news for Microsoft.
WTF? Seriously, WTF?
Those guys offer TV for free as flash video on a webpage. What the FUNK does it matter which device is playing that?
It’s FREE! On the WEB! From their OWN WEBPAGE!
It doesn’t make sense, at all, to block any of that for specific devices.
WTF? Seriously, WTF?
Those guys offer TV for free as flash video on a webpage. What the FUNK does it matter which device is playing that?
It’s FREE! On the WEB! From their OWN WEBPAGE!
It doesn’t make sense, at all, to block any of that for specific devices.
Sounds like Turf Warz.
Sounds like Turf Warz.
All these networks seem confused and don’t really know what to do.
All these networks seem confused and don’t really know what to do.
What a spaghetti mess! “oh ya open is good” blah blah blah now what Google. I feel sorry for Google TV buyers…..
What a spaghetti mess! “oh ya open is good” blah blah blah now what Google. I feel sorry for Google TV buyers…..
The next 5 years in TV are going to be mighty interesting.
The next 5 years in TV are going to be mighty interesting.
The networks are not going to play nice. They are afraid that their product is going to be commoditized.
The networks are not going to play nice. They are afraid that their product is going to be commoditized.
Google tv is too expensive, this only complicates it more.
Google tv is too expensive, this only complicates it more.
Goog, play fair! you are really the neo-microsoft, aren’t you?
Goog, play fair! you are really the neo-microsoft, aren’t you?
Seems to me that a certain “obnoxious,” “skinny,” “vituperative,” “egomaniacal,” “self-serving,” “self-righteous,” “delusional,” “RDF making” “zealot” once exclaimed on a certain Web Show for the IT famous D-List that a certain small company called Google will soon find out that dealing with the networks and cable companies will be a very difficult proposition.
Seems to me that said person wasn’t bullshitting after all. Perhaps a certain egomaniacal company called Google could take a lesson from the Jedi and work with Apple instead of stealing their ideas and trying to control the world, one advert at a time.
Steve, No dividend, No surrender. I’m with you dude!
Seems to me that a certain “obnoxious,” “skinny,” “vituperative,” “egomaniacal,” “self-serving,” “self-righteous,” “delusional,” “RDF making” “zealot” once exclaimed on a certain Web Show for the IT famous D-List that a certain small company called Google will soon find out that dealing with the networks and cable companies will be a very difficult proposition.
Seems to me that said person wasn’t bullshitting after all. Perhaps a certain egomaniacal company called Google could take a lesson from the Jedi and work with Apple instead of stealing their ideas and trying to control the world, one advert at a time.
Steve, No dividend, No surrender. I’m with you dude!
@ elgarak: “It doesn’t make sense, at all, to block any of that for specific devices.”
Actually it does from an advertising view point. The networks and cable operators want you to watch the heavily ad supported model over the cable on your TV. Since most people don’t use their computers to watch programming they can get by with the single-add-at-the-beginning supported online version.
@ elgarak: “It doesn’t make sense, at all, to block any of that for specific devices.”
Actually it does from an advertising view point. The networks and cable operators want you to watch the heavily ad supported model over the cable on your TV. Since most people don’t use their computers to watch programming they can get by with the single-add-at-the-beginning supported online version.
I saw the Google TV at a Sony store in Las Vegas.
1. The salespeople really could not run it…and had to ask each other how it worked.
2. The remote is an absolute total joke. It’s a two hander with a track ball in the corner that you have to roll up to click then roll down to click something else and tiny little buttons for letter based entry
3. The content is blocked from many sites
4. I asked them to show me HD from YouTube and even THAT proved to be a 2 minute exercise in stupidity
5. The thing is $300
6. It’s Fugly
7. The internal menus and screen displays are a jumbled effing mess
8. It’s the product of people who simply don’t understand the significance of resolution. By that…the meaning of resolution in the real world experience. 720 streamed at a normal viewing distance looks just fine. Standing 4 feet from the set, yup 1080p looks better…but when you put SD up right after seeing 1080 at that viewing distance it’s a jarring experience…not so much at 720 and the fact is that a LOT of content will be in 480 or below for some time to come.. attempting to ‘Up Rez’ does not work…it just makes it look worse. 720 also streams and plays faster for the great majority of people even with broadband.
PS- I saw HD video from Hitachi at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in 1986…I know what real HD looks like and 1080 is a pale imitation