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Google TV is in Trouble

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As more and more people “cut the cord” with the cable company, more and more devices are coming out to allow individuals to watch TV without paying a cable company. Google TV is a perfect example of a TV alternative which allows customers to stream content online to their computer or other device.

However, recent developments have left some wondering if Google TV is truly “TV”. The most recent chink in Google’s armor came when television giant Viacom blocked their online content from the Google TV service. This means those individuals with Google TV will not be able to stream full episodes of shows from networks such as Comedy Central and Nickelodeon. Viacom is just one piece of a larger problem facing Google TV right now as networks like ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox have all blocked their shows on the service as well.

Google TV promises people they can watch what they want, where they want; but that promise appears to be a hollow one at the moment as many networks have failed to get in line behind the Google TV service.

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Author: | November 24, 2010 | 5 Comments

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  • http://www.memac.com Memac

    It seems like advancing technology and innovation is much much more difficult to achieve when greedy brainwashed corporate heads like Fox’s CBS’s are involved.

  • gianluca

    But really we need television in 2010????
    Please Google, forget it. Only stupid people watch television today. Google is a smart company. Don’t loose your time with monkey

  • OTDragons

    I’m so sick of this…Google TV is NOT a service, it is a platform, which by any other name is an operating system, just like Windows, OSX, Linux (actually it IS just a custom linux build). When you write the article, get it RIGHT. The continuous flow of misinformation about this, and many, products is what enables all of this bull to continue to happen.

    Main point, if the content providers didn’t want computers to access content for free, they should not have put content on the internet for free. The boxes loaded with Google TV are computers, just like any HP, Apple, Toshiba you buy at Best Buy. Look at the hardware, just netbook pieces, the OS, Linux, web browser, Chrome, flash player, Adobe. Block all computers, or block none of them. Picking and choosing is like saying your Sony TV can watch NBC but that Samsung can’t, or allowing the content providers to somehow block an at home projector in a basement home theater from playing a Blu-Ray because THAT screen is only allowed in cinema in the center of town.

    News flash, screens come in all shapes, sizes, and quality points, but they are all screens, including your precious TV. Computers come with different operating systems, media ports, and form factors, but they are all computers. There is no longer a technical divide that prevents any content from playing on any screen, only the artificial ones the content providers are creating out of fear. Learn from your RIAA friends, fighting the progress will only allow innovators to come in and figure out work arounds. Giving consumers what they want (aka Apple and the 99 cent song, 9.99 album) will allow you to, instead, make money on the new tech.

  • http://whatsuptelevision.com/ GEORGE ROBBINS

    I say the big boys better stop thinking that the veiwers will only watch their programming. The days of the monopoly on content have ended.

    Don’t put your channels on GoogleTV. More audience for real content provider who are not owned and dictated by corporations.

    All we needed was a level playing ground. Now lets see what the audience says.

  • ittv-watcher

    it is normal for new ideas to develop over time.. google is well aware of this.. what is happening now has to do with market share and maturation of a service/product.. price cuts on the sony tv products are about the economy and market share.. this too is normal.. internet television is here in it’s infancy and soon enough more of the big money will develop the products necessary.. as for content providers.. they’re just trying to make a buck and so soon enough they will join in this new technology.. or be left behind by consumers.. right now all we are seeing is the jockeying for position..

    one final point.. pricing shows individually at the price points that exist now is untenable.. package pricing must occur or this will be what kills off content providers.. 99 cents a show becomes too high when people start to look at the overall cost.. commercials will have to pay the freight as they do with hulu tv..

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