A CNN story has the scoop on the Google TV:
TOKYO, Jan. 7, 2008 (Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex) — Japan’s Matsushita Electric Industrial Co (NYSE:MC) , the world’s largest consumer electronics maker, has teamed up with Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) and YouTube to commercialize flat panel television sets that allow users to access and view videos online, the Nikkei reported on Tuesday, without citing sources.
This will be the Google group’s first tie-up with a Japanese consumer electronics manufacturer in TV-related services, the business daily said.
The Internet-enabled plasma TVs are expected to hit store shelves in the US this spring, it said.
Google is the world’s largest Internet search engine, while YouTube is one of the most prominent players in online video distribution.
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Wowie!!
Now we’ll have some YouTube-couch-potatoes!
Lets see how Google executes this.
Sweet! Google World Domination Continues.
*cue World is Doomed music*
Very Cool, wished I bought google shares like you did shoe back in 02
I wonder, when will Google start making cars and sailing equipment.
I will not be telling my kids about this – we’d have to suffer YouTube all day.
To click on google ads with the remote control. That will fun.
What are your thoughts Jeremy?
I’m excited but I’m sure it’ll take a while to get big in the US, UK and Canada (anywhere outside Asia where their internet speeds are mega-fast)…
Dom
I believe this is what a computer and a monitor already does… Correct me if I’m wrong.
Justin Dupre
Google Uber Alles!
Internet enabled TV’s – pass. Why not just connect a PC to a suitable HDTV
I wonder if they will frown on paid advertising… Suddenly, GTV dot com just got a bit more pricey!
Two big companies with their technologies improving the life of a common man.
This should be released right after the google phone right?
And I wonder how small the tv will have to be to have youtube look decent. Youtube is not known for quality.
There is Google toilet paper also on its way to the market …so google can help you wipe your ass too!
Wow! It will be nice to spend a thousand dollars on a brand new HDTV and $50 bucks a month just to watch grainy, poorly-lit, 45-second videos of 12 year olds lighting farts or sexually ambiguous people scream and cry about pop music stars.
Sony Pictures Television Launches YouTube Channels. As more studios also come on board, this will make it worthwhile for many folks.
Not to mention concerts that are now debuting on YouTube.
Just try to imagine the YouTube of the beginning of the next decade – to see how this deal is going to fall into place and benefit everyone involved
Definitely, you can’t help but think how much time will pass until G collapses under its own weight.
I was thinking pretty much the same thing but, let’s face it, they will most likely find out about it before I do
I can’t say I’m that interested really. I do wonder what they’re going to do about the quality of the videos on YouTube to make them even look half way decent on a large plasma screen.
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Does this mean that Google will actually have a physical product now…almost.
Sweet. Win win for everyone. Now you can get your brand new 150″ LCD from Panasonic, have 30 million channels and nothing on, and Panasonic will sell more TV’s than ever, because even more people will pull out their .357 and cap it’s ass and have to buy another one.
Then again, these days, having YouTube on the TV…will probably be the best damn thing on anyways.
I was just having a conversation late last night with a potential client where we discussed the look of the Internet and television in the future and how that look would merge.
Google does it all.
what it means is soon to have google tv ads
This will change a lot of things Jeremy. Stuff like this is the reason I read your blog. Its so useful and informative.
Google Por Vida!!
I’m holding out for the “Google Butler”
Youtube is a fad. Why would you buy a TV with a built in fad?
By getting it into a mainstream everyday product, it will slowly start to become part of the everyday itself and not just a fad.
In your video post a couple days ago you said people don’t come to your blog to get news. How do you explain this post? :p
The company’s announced it, CNN reported yet, shoemoney passes it on because he thinks it’s cool. So if 2 other people tell the world before you do I don’t know how much you could call that “news”.
Indeed, just because this is not necessarily a blog where news is presented, it doesn’t mean that a topic such as this one shouldn’t be covered from time to time.
I can’t wait for a Google brain…
Buy them now, they’re still gonna go up
wonder how many ads they will throw in, and how much / month or / gig this will cost. youtube chews up lots of my bandwidth
They will almost certainly throw in plenty of ads.
Indeed. World domination seems to be on their top to-do list.
There is what they call packaging. Most products sold are the same stuffs but marketed differently.
Yay for Google TV! I both love and hate Google , as evidenced by this blog post. But still, I can’t wait until I’m walking around with my Google phone, Google jeans, and driving around in my designer Google car!
What with Google’s free 411 service and now this, all they have to do now is take Microsoft down and bam, world domination. Check mate.
And why not if they’re the best? More power to them. I just hope “Don’t be evil” sticks.
Are you sure they haven’t?
At some point you have to justify the promise of the YouTube buy. They need a better model for abusiness stand-point. That’s why you see Google integrating it into everything.
I wonder how long it will be until Apple does something similar? Such as an integrated Apple TV.
I wonder when Apple will come out with something similar?
i don’t think this is going to be out for awhile
How are they going to monetize this then, they have with every other thing they own