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Google's philosophy with Google TV and network television stations amounts to "why buy the cow when we can get the milk for free?" In so many words, the issue

Google's philosophy with Google TV and network television stations amounts to "why buy the cow when we can get the milk for free?" In so many words, the issue is that Google wants to profit from network television without paying for the content or infrastructure. The networks have a legitimate right to be angry when they pay for the content and distribution and Google wants to profit off of that for free.

jedwhite 16y ago
How is this any different to Google News? Google is just letting users discover through a better unified interface the TV content that is ALREADY available on the web for free. They are providing a service for both users and the TV networks. The TV networks, like newspapers and other old-world publishers before them with google search and news, just don't understand it.
- citizenkeys 16y ago
  Google's had issues with those people, too. And book authors and publishers because of Google Books. The issue is that Google TV is layering their ads and content on top of the television that the networks pay lots of money to acquire. So the networks pay all the costs and Google piggy-backs on it for free.
  - martythemaniak 16y ago
    I haven't used Google TV, but I'm pretty sure your post is verifiable bullshit. If you go to a network's site on your computer and view their content, you also view their ads. If you go to a network's site using Google TV, you view their content and their ads. Where do Google ads come into this? No, this is all about networks being obsessed with distribution control - you can watch a show on your computer, on your HTPC, but not on a user-friendly HTPC. You can watch hulu on your laptop on your lap, but not on your tablet on your lap, etc etc.
    - citizenkeys 16y ago
      Google didn't create Google TV out of the kindness of their heart. Google created Google TV to make a profit. Just like you see ads on top of Youtube videos, you see ads on top of and around television using Google TV. So the more popular a television show, the more ads Google gets to show around it, and the more money Google makes. How much of that money gets shared with the networks that actually paid for television show and the costs of distribution? None. And that's the problem. The networks are putting up all the money and Google collects when it pays off.
      - 124816 16y ago
        > you see ads on top of and around television using Google TV No you don't.
yanw 16y ago
How is accessing the networks' content through their websites and watching the networks' own ads is "getting the milk for free", if anything the networks here are limiting ad impressions by blocking potential viewers which is incredibly stupid.

jedwhite 16y ago

How is this any different to Google News? Google is just letting users discover through a better unified interface the TV content that is ALREADY available on the web for free. They are providing a service for both users and the TV networks. The TV networks, like newspapers and other old-world publishers before them with google search and news, just don't understand it.

citizenkeys 16y ago
Google's had issues with those people, too. And book authors and publishers because of Google Books. The issue is that Google TV is layering their ads and content on top of the television that the networks pay lots of money to acquire. So the networks pay all the costs and Google piggy-backs on it for free.
- martythemaniak 16y ago
  I haven't used Google TV, but I'm pretty sure your post is verifiable bullshit. If you go to a network's site on your computer and view their content, you also view their ads. If you go to a network's site using Google TV, you view their content and their ads. Where do Google ads come into this? No, this is all about networks being obsessed with distribution control - you can watch a show on your computer, on your HTPC, but not on a user-friendly HTPC. You can watch hulu on your laptop on your lap, but not on your tablet on your lap, etc etc.
  - citizenkeys 16y ago
    Google didn't create Google TV out of the kindness of their heart. Google created Google TV to make a profit. Just like you see ads on top of Youtube videos, you see ads on top of and around television using Google TV. So the more popular a television show, the more ads Google gets to show around it, and the more money Google makes. How much of that money gets shared with the networks that actually paid for television show and the costs of distribution? None. And that's the problem. The networks are putting up all the money and Google collects when it pays off.
    - 124816 16y ago
      > you see ads on top of and around television using Google TV No you don't.

yanw 16y ago

How is accessing the networks' content through their websites and watching the networks' own ads is "getting the milk for free", if anything the networks here are limiting ad impressions by blocking potential viewers which is incredibly stupid.