Google TV

[ctabuk]

So far my research has not found any real links to this happening, however, I am reliably informed that Google intends to launch a Television System similar to SKY and in direct competition. The hand set will be a miniture PC Keyboard with Search facilities and many film channels will be on freeview sponsored as it were by adsense.

Bringing the Internet to the lounge and bedroom - free phone call systems.

Oh and by the way -if this was one of my famous hoaxes it would be in the break room;).

Have any of you heard more? The expected launch is circa 2010

You heard it first here in WPW.

[mjtaylor]

As long as you host the morning show, I'm in!

[Webnauts]

As long as you host the morning show, I'm in!
Me too. :lol:

[WDC]

Yes I heard it on WPW but seems there nothing IMPOSSIBLE for Google. I wonder what this company would be 10 years later.

[kgun]

Oh and by the way -if this was one of my famous hoaxes it would be in the break room;).


Why:?: It is not difficult to deliver broadband Tv over IP. The biggest problem in my view is resources and experience. But is it any problem for Google to buy the human resources they need? Money still rules as far as I understand Mr market.

Related link:
http://www.webproworld.com/google-discussion-forum/65685-google-embracing-web-3-0-media-over-ip.html#post354696

http://www.webproworld.com/discussion-forum/63176-digital-video-camera-do-you-recommend.html#post339392

What about CTabUK Tv (http://www.ctabuk.tv/) (still free as far as I can see) over boradband? You have started publishing videos on YouTube. That is the first important step.

Note: Skype has reduced the telephone to Web software. The same will happen with Tv or any media that can be delivered over Ip.

The digital world is real. Live Tv over broadband is real;)

And the future is Internet2 (http://www.internet2.org/) that will be much faster and stronger than Internet1.

David, remember the comparative advantage in language. That is as important as our fjords.

[ctabuk]

Well believe it or not my Father had the concept of Cable TV way before anyone else had even thought of it - He was a TV Engineer, he and a guy named Trevor Henley tried to find a backer way back in 1959. It never happened but I can remember the amount of time he put into it. He did not live long enough to see that his concept worked. But i have no doubt that he got to hear about it;)

[kgun]

I registered on this

AVForums Home (http://www.avforums.com/)

great Uk media forum. Got fast comments and answers.

Look at the categories:

Digital TV Receivers & Services (http://www.avforums.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=289)
Other Home Cinema Essentials (http://www.avforums.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=235)Cinema over Ip. The sky is the limit:rolleyes:

Side note:

My very very personal view:
Part of the crisis you now see in financial markets are due to the digital revolution. You do not need mega buildings to run an online bank, a travelling bureau etc. You need software and computeres, IT infrastructure. This requires another type of capital that will substitute real estate, property (an online bank do not need to be located in the center of a town) and housing capital. I once visited the Danish Forex trading and Currency trading by Saxo Bank (http://www.saxobank.com/) and thought it was an IT company when I entered the ground floor.

Capital will substitute some type of traditional labour during the digital revolution, but in my view, there will soon be lack of programming and web developement skills.

[kgun]

Found a recent article related to my side note:
Worries That the Good Times Were Mostly a Mirage - New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/business/23leonhardt.html?em&ex=1201323600&en=684c97e012b90bba&ei=5087%0A)

[cw1865]

The problem that I see is that the US has just been bleeding dollars into the system. Between the budget deficits and the trade deficit. In the long term its unsustainable. The Fed is making money cheap and the foreign investors have begun to seriously wonder if their dollar denominated assets are going to retain their value vis-a-vis their home currency (and also with respect to the yen, quite a few have taken low interest yen loans to buy dollar denominated assets to make money off the spread). If the dollar drops vis-a-vis the yen, that could spell some serious trouble....

[Dubbya]

This is totally off topic, but what the heck...

ctabuk, I'd much rather watch you break out yer ol' gitbox and jam instead of watching CNN every morning, just as long as you don't go the Naked News (http://www.nakednews.com) route. :D

[kgun]

This is totally off topic, but what the heck...

Yes, but I was adviced to calm down in the break room, ....

<continued side note>
So my short remark to CW1865 is that the largest problem for the USA, as we economists have said and understood for years if not decades, is that the USA have consumed more than they have earned, in other words, they have consumed a relatively large part of global savings. That can not last, and the USA needs to take the discounting process, depreciation, correction, adjustment (choose the word you prefer) rather sooner than later.

The only thing you can hope with lowering the price that goes to the root of the problem, the interest rate, is a softer landing. You can roll a growing snowball ahead of you for a time, but finally it will roll back.

</continued side note>

Wake up Americans, the worlds super power is no longer the USA, but Denmark. Ask thehappysmoker;)

<Side note to side note>

Bill Gates meeting at the World Economic forum in Switzerland talks about a new type of capitalism. "Creative capitalism".

Isn't that the heart of capitalism? Creative competition or necessity is the mother of invention. Bill Gates is better on developing desktop applications:rolleyes:

Bill, this is my profession.

We delivered a package and that will increase consumption:confused:

One of the most used words on the internet in 2007.

"subprime"

We can hope for a change in january 2009. My personal meanings as an outsider.
</Side note to side note>

[ctabuk]

Well some of you thought I might be hoaxing - but I leave that to others these days.

Is Google starting an online TV station? « Miscellanea 2.0 (http://elver.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/is-google-starting-an-online-tv-station/)


My news is that it will be an oral search - in other words a microphone in the remote.

[kgun]

Google eating fiber for optimal growth. (http://multifinanceit.com/it/networks/networks.htm)

Do you remember that 2005 story?

My speculations for the day:
One of the main differences between Google and Microsoft is that Google works in silence and in my view they have done better company buys so long. I am still waiting for the Google web browser, the Goole Web OS, ...

But I begin to understand why Microsoft bought 1.6 % of FaceBook for USD 240 Mill. Give that young FaceBook staff some money so they can acquire some experienced leaders and may be they can deliver some tools that can compete with Google's. Important question: Will the money be used in a way so the site can deliver free cash flow, or will it be used on additional parties? If I were very rich, I would personally not bought facebook for USD 15 billion, but there is one reason why Warren Buffet said: "Bill Gates is one of the smartest guys I have ever met." Should he not retire in 2008, jumping from a sinking ship (http://www.webproworld.com/discussion-forum/52952-microsoft-sinking-ship.html#post276522)? I stand by what I wrote in that thread (http://www.webproworld.com/discussion-forum/52952-microsoft-sinking-ship.html#post276916). Fortunately, no company can succeed on everything. That would only hurt (digital) consumers.

In addition, as far as I know, they block (some / all?) bots from indexing their site, a nightmare for any search engine.

[Martinscholes]

It sounds like a great idea.

I aim eventually to set up a TV channel on my main site, but that's for the future. A long time in the future, I think. I thought I had it cracked but it needs more work.