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I'm a little puzzled here: what does Google gain out of this? I thought their goal was to eventually insert video ads into videos; that goal will not be impact
by psranga 17y ago
I'm a little puzzled here: what does Google gain out of this?
I thought their goal was to eventually insert video ads into videos; that goal will not be impacted by people watching videos on TV.
And it can't be copyright concerns either.
- ephermata 17y agoWhy couldn't it be copyright concerns? YouTube has negotiated deals with different copyright holders. We don't know all the provisions of those deals. One provision might be "no playing videos on set top boxes." Instead of trying to explicitly mark which videos have this restriction and which don't, they could opt to just disallow TV viewing entirely -- and try to drive views to the XL product as a replacement for people who still really want to see YouTube on the TV. That being said, the points made elsewhere in the thread about the line being blurry are valid. My phone (HTC Touch Pro 2) has TV out and explicitly lists YouTube as a video source for that TV out. Does that count?