Coming soon: Google TV?

An anonymous reader writes "Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are quietly developing new search tools for digital video, reports ZDNet. Google's effort, until now secret, is arguably the most ambitious of the three, the report states. It quotes sources familiar with the plan saying the search giant is courting broadcasters and cable networks with a new technology that would do for television what it has already done for the Internet: sort through and reveal needles of video clips from within the haystack archives of major network TV shows."

Comments

Cool

[Anonymous Coward]

Now I won't have to search for the remote

I'm feeling lucky

[yahyamf]

Hmm, now where can I get a remote with an "I'm feeling lucky" button? In Korea maybe?

The saddest thing

[Zork the Almighty]

Yeah, but just try getting at that content. It will be like scholarly journals. Anyone can search and find anything, but then you have to mortgage your house for an annual subscription to view the content. The promise of a true digital library is a long way off, so long as we have insane copyright laws.

Re:Coupled with a pay per view model...

[savagedome]

search with a pay per view service on TV shows

I use http://www.tvtorrents.net/ to catch up on my tv

Re:This is great!

[Zork the Almighty]

You are mistaken. In the United States, the vast majority of recorded works remain under copyright. It does not matter that nobody can contact the rightsholders to get permission, you can not use it. Thank Disney / Universal / Viacom / Time Warner / Fox for that one. The reality is that big media does not want to compete with the public domain.