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Google Video Store Announced
acid06 writes "Engadget and BusinessWeek covers Larry Page's talk at CES regarding the much anticipated Google Video Store. The rumours proved to be true and they're really going online with CBS to sell commercial-free episodes of their series. Deals with NBA, Sony BMG and Greencine.com were also announced." From the BusinessWeek article: "The video providers have the option of offering content on a download-to-own or download-to-rent basis. In a sign that content owners will likely pursue different approaches through Google Video, the National Basketball Association will sell broadcasts of its games one day after the event for $3.95. Meanwhile, public television staple Charlie Rose will post his interviews the day after a broadcast, allowing a free streaming for the first 24 hours then making it downloadable afterward for 99 cents each. Meanwhile, CBS is selling episodes of its popular 'CSI' and 'Survivor' series at the standard iTunes price of $1.99 per download."
Have you seen this?
http://pack.google.com/
Info here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/
Busy day for Google.
People won't pay for things unless they have to, irrelavant of how one person may have higher moral standards, there are at least 100 for that one who think that, hell, people shouldn't have to pay for music unless they really like it.
I, personally, think that MP3 file-sharing should be legalized as a type of on-demand radio. Similar to radio or TV, people can browse and listen to the stuff they like, and if they really like it they can go out and buy CDs or Box Sets of their shows.
This is how it appears to me from a consumer standpoint, from the business standpoint, the plausibility of this happening is very small.
It's not like piracy is going to bankrupt any of these places anyways.
Oh yeah, for TV, people shouldn't have to pay per episode. I pay about as much for one of these episodes as I do for one entire channel on Satellite.
It's like charging 99 cents per article in a magazine. It doesn't work. Subscription based services are the way to go for this one.
TFA doesn't say anything about DRM on the videos you can buy. I quote:
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ne of the more interesting aspects of the Video Store, however, is the fact that they're also making their non-copy-protected content available for download DRM-free encoded for the iPod and PSP (though there's also no word on what it is we're going to have to deal with in terms of DRM on purchased Google Video content).
According to Wall Street Journal ( http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB1136438145
Some details of Google's online video service remain unclear, such as how much content owners might charge consumers to download their videos. Google last year had said it planned to allow content owners to charge for videos, but it hadn't activated that feature. Interest in delivering video over the Internet has surged since October, when Apple began offering downloads of popular TV shows through a partnership with Walt Disney Co. Google has developed its own digital-rights-management software to protect downloaded videos from piracy.
So Google is now creating their own DRM. And they have a partnership with Walt Disney. Anyone else feel a conflicting interest here? Yeah, business is business, but I really liked the "do no evil"-mantra. At least I liked Googles _taste_. Buying AOL of all companies AND creating DRM is not what I'd expect from Google.
On the other hand, Apple did it, and most people still like Apple. It's a sad world when the best we can do is hope for the lesser of all evils to win...
Glad to see that, according to the BBC, unlike Apple, they're tackling both iPod Video and Sony PSP as mobile devices.
They use an active x/firefox plugin, and don't tell you about it. (And funnily enough, MS is going to a stand alone windows update).
:)
http://pack.google.com/common_installer.js
they dont put it in the firefox directory either... its in the google updater directory. Granted, it doesnt do much work, but adding another 50K visual studio plugin to firefox is not good. the idea is good though, one stop updating of internet facing apps. bad implementation. also, the programs google pack installs STILL do their own update checks which is annoying. in fact, after installing google earth via google updater I ran it and it said there was an update available
Okay, Mister Sarcasmpants. Screw Google. Which search engine actually serves valid HTML pages to me?
(Give up? It's MSN! MSN's search page, search.msn.com, is valid HTML! The results pages are too. Time for you to switch.)
For more information, click here.
Err, you miss the point.
Cable providers get the majority of their feeds via digital satellite nowadays, not analogue. They run it through hardware that reduces the MPEG blocking artifacts and blast it down their analogue pipes. In some cases, the digital-analogue conversions are done rather close to your house with a digital main trunk.
Of course the average consumer doesn't realize that, so they make arguments like yours, thinking it's similar to the old vinyl vs. CD argument. I remember vinyl audiophiles insisting their records sounded better than CDs even for groups that were using CD-rate digital mastering back in the '80s. They simply refused to accept that the "improvement" was signal smoothing that is now done in the digital domain by high-end audio players.
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
For those of you reading this in real time, don't miss tonight's show. He's doing a silicon valley episode.
Google ships DRM.
DRM is evil.
Therefore Google is doing evil.
Liars.
I would suggest Avast. It's free for home use. All updates are free. Too many people stop paying for the updates on popular programs like Norton, so it renders the software almost pointless.
Can I bum a sig?
From your link: "...MTV Networks' forthcoming digital music service called URGE."
I think that pretty specifically says who is responsible for content and overall design. MS is just coding the damn thing.
You really should read the first sentence of the article you are using to attack somebody...