“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.”
Read more in the full article here.
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
Why is this not surprising? Hulu already blocks any set-top devices whose manufacturers don’t pay an access fee. The whole point of these content aggregators is to build up the audience with “free” content and use it as leverage.
Now that Hulu has an audience numbering in the millions, the studios that own Hulu are now using that leverage to extract fees wherever they can — from end users via Hulu Plus, from investors when they spin Hulu off in an IPO, from ISPs whom they want to eventually charge carriage fees (ESPN already does this with ESPN3.com), and from manufacturers (this is Google TV’s Achilles heel because unlike Apple TV, Google has no direct revenue model for programming).
Google TV’s well on its way to becoming a balkanized mess like the rest of the IPTV options. Check out this review of Google TV in action — sounds like the geek-spawned antithesis of “just works.” It ain’t ready for prime time, that’s for sure.
http://searchengineland.com/life-with-google-tv-my-first-day-impressions-53471
Why is this not surprising? Hulu already blocks any set-top devices whose manufacturers don’t pay an access fee. The whole point of these content aggregators is to build up the audience with “free” content and use it as leverage.
Now that Hulu has an audience numbering in the millions, the studios that own Hulu are now using that leverage to extract fees wherever they can — from end users via Hulu Plus, from investors when they spin Hulu off in an IPO, from ISPs whom they want to eventually charge carriage fees (ESPN already does this with ESPN3.com), and from manufacturers (this is Google TV’s Achilles heel because unlike Apple TV, Google has no direct revenue model for programming).
Google TV’s well on its way to becoming a balkanized mess like the rest of the IPTV options. Check out this review of Google TV in action — sounds like the geek-spawned antithesis of “just works.” It ain’t ready for prime time, that’s for sure.
http://searchengineland.com/life-with-google-tv-my-first-day-impressions-53471
I’m so totally shocked that Disney would do this.
(meaning that I’m totally not shocked)
I’m so totally shocked that Disney would do this.
(meaning that I’m totally not shocked)
well done google, you did very well, i also hates the piracy, and i think google t.v will very famous in next three to four year in world.
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Disney?
Isn’t Steve Jobs a member of Disney’s Board of Directors?
Is that a coincidence?
Disney?
Isn’t Steve Jobs a member of Disney’s Board of Directors?
Is that a coincidence?
After reading the article, I can’t help but laugh at Danny Sullivan’s misery in trying to figure out what the hell is Google TV. WOW. I mean, just WOW.
You begin to have a better understand of Apple’s meticulous attention to detail in its products after reading the article. And, you realized that only Apple could deliver such an experience.
After reading the article, I can’t help but laugh at Danny Sullivan’s misery in trying to figure out what the hell is Google TV. WOW. I mean, just WOW.
You begin to have a better understand of Apple’s meticulous attention to detail in its products after reading the article. And, you realized that only Apple could deliver such an experience.
Haha. Eat (stuff) and die, Eric T. Mole.
Oh, and, while you’re at it, Don’t Be Evil.
Haha. Eat (stuff) and die, Eric T. Mole.
Oh, and, while you’re at it, Don’t Be Evil.
@pr
About the real HD – everything that I have heard says that you are right and that the “HD” decisions that were made in the U.S. in the 1990s were shortsighted. A couple of colleagues saw “real” HD demos in Japan many years ago and swore that 1080P is not even close, especially on larger screens which are much less than 50 ppi.
@pr
About the real HD – everything that I have heard says that you are right and that the “HD” decisions that were made in the U.S. in the 1990s were shortsighted. A couple of colleagues saw “real” HD demos in Japan many years ago and swore that 1080P is not even close, especially on larger screens which are much less than 50 ppi.
“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”
I was there too and I’ve said the same thing for years! Seeing their HD monitors and footage felt like I was looking out a window. It was truly that good.
“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”
I was there too and I’ve said the same thing for years! Seeing their HD monitors and footage felt like I was looking out a window. It was truly that good.
Now, isn’t that special?
Now, isn’t that special?
Looks like google really did their homework on this project.
Looks like google really did their homework on this project.
Is there anything good on?
Is there anything good on?
If Google controls TV land all you will be getting is ad-supported trash. Quality will go down the tube and TV-googlers will become junky dummies with no idea of what is going in or out of their dazed mind. Just look what has become of the world when quantity rule: wastage and no sense of value.
If Google controls TV land all you will be getting is ad-supported trash. Quality will go down the tube and TV-googlers will become junky dummies with no idea of what is going in or out of their dazed mind. Just look what has become of the world when quantity rule: wastage and no sense of value.
So because Google didn’t block sources of pirate video, they’ll block legal video, thus forcing people to use pirate sources.
The pretty retarded to be honest!