Google TV is coming. Are you ready?
“I do not want to watch 100 channels for my favourite tv shows. I want one channel that could provide me with all my favourite shows”.
I am agreeing to the words spoken by Nicholas Negroponte, the founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit association, in a conference a few months ago.
You call it a personal television or a customizable tv or whatever fancy name you like.
This is the future of tv, I guess.
We spend most of our time in front of our PCs and on the web. Make that as a personal, internet tv. You have understood the concept what Google is talking about.
Already, the success of social video sharing sites such as YouTube and MetCafe shows that we no longer would rush home to watch our evening favourite tv shows. We can afford miss them because, most probably we can find them online and we can watch them whenever we wish.
Google has much grander plans for Internet TV. For instance, the relevancy of ads specific to the users. Say, the advertisers can specifically show relevant ads to the viewers of a specific show, specific to a geographic region and time of viewing. The viewers of ‘The Simpsons’ will watch different ads compared to the viewers of “LOST”.
“With a little Internet know-how, the TV industry can enjoy a brighter future, says the search giant. Google style.”
Now on, users will have the option of searching for their favourite episodes and view them on pay-per-view basis. You pay only for the episodes that you view.
Detailed Post on ‘Google wants to do for TV what it did for the Web‘ from Daniel on last100.com
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