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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14finally we'll get more than just snippets from better providers. Namely, pirates.
- shadowsword232, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Not in the next few years. But in the long run computers, TVs, consoles, phones, and everything else will merge into one convenient utility.
- hartley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10The user base and socialization.
- phantom_mullet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I hate the word "never" in conjunction with technology. That's just like saying we'll "never" need more than 256k of RAM or computers will "never" be commonplace household appliances.
- eightyd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I can see the google boardroom right now..
"Damn it! I just KNEW dropping that $1.6 Billion was a terrible idea. Frank, pack your things, you're fired! Alright gentlemen, we have untold billions to spend, what should we buy next?"
Also, isn't CBS part of viacom? So don't we already know this? - dilibau, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I am a beta tester for Joost and Babelgum and trust me, classic TV is OVER! you just have to see how nice things flow on a 19' screen where u can chat with ur buddies and watch MTV or National Geographic. It's true, if you ain't got a broadband you're stuck on classic TV
- spinchange, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6actually its the other way around but thats cool
(Viacom bought and then spun off CBS)
...and JOOST will prevail ;-) - tapo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Nope, CBS spun off Viacom - which is why Viacom was reincorporated in 2006 and given a new logo. But Viacom did buy CBS in 2000. The old Viacom is now CBS.
I hate corporate mergers. It's so damn confusing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom - jessiepoohky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I always got the impression that Google aren't overly bright, got lucky with a different way to search (which is a mess tired to forever going back to the main page to look at more ads) and stumbled upon a way to make a killing with PPC that suffers from click fraud, they refuse to barely admit.
Everything they have made or bought since is either not the market leader or just not popular.
I understand the purchase of YT for ad purposes, but to think that the old guard of copyright paranoid media would just fall down with their legs in the air and let little lucy tape and upload every show they ever made was always going to be a stretch.
Still, when you've got $10Billion in cash in the bank, you're obviously doing something right.
If we could FF 10 years from now I wonder where the Google boys would be.
10 cents
Judge - niradg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4imho, the big media companies are beginning to realize that they don't need youtube. they can create their own services, flash video is standardized and portable, so why let some other site distribute it?
- Modulo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3aurac, it already has for me for around the last year, so .. guess again. tvrss + google reader + utorrent = my internet vcr.
- geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That is cool. Imagine having municpal wifi, VOIP + Joost. We can give the middle finger to cable companies and phone companies at that point. +1 for the consumer.
- tapo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5CBS sold off Viacom as a separate company back in 2005.
- estacado, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wasn't the Viacom deal over weeks ago?
- aydoubleyou, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is their first attempt at the reason they purchased YouTube.
So we'll see how it goes out in the long run. - manatee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Check out youtube's new feature they just rolled out...
http://digg.com/tech_news/YouTube_Lets_Users_Decide_on_Home_Page_Featured_Videos - paulbjensen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Youtube has one major thing going for it - 100m video views a day!
However, the problems are a) IP infringement issues and b) how you insert advertising into Youtube and allow owners of the video content to collect a cut on those ad bucks.
You content providers, the problem is that TV advertising is more lucrative at the moment, and that's why they're reluctant to put their faith in Youtube - LGgeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Perhaps the google engineers can invent a broadcast network for YouTube to make a deal with.
Oh but wait.. then google would have to go buy another broadcast network that everyone was watching. - BoredLurker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So I should chuck my large screen HDTV so I can watch on a 19 inch monitor, just so I can chat with buddies at the same time? meh, I think I'll pass. It sounds cool, but until I can run IPTV on my HDTV with the same quality I get now I'm out.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1So this changes nothing
- clearrecrd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2edit
- Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Annnnd.... as of this post, YouTube is down for "scheduled maintenance." Coincidence?
- fullback, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wait a minute. When television shows like these were aired, the network and affiliates made their income from the commercials aired then. The networks are just trying to get a revenue stream out of yesterdays fish that they couldn't sell anyway.
- clearrecrd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Is there anyway I could get an invite to Joost? How many invites do current testers get?
steezj@gmail.com - krisper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Does this mean we can stop pretending that Youtube is ever going to be anything more than Google's way of blackmailing media companies? Good for CBS for standing telling them to take a hike.
- Ngai, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Seems the deal is underway...perhaps?
http://youtube.com/img/bad_reaction.gif
or
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/4743/badreactionmw9.gif - aurac2006, on 10/12/2007, -14/+4much as i would love it, the internet will never 100% replace tv
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1oh shi!
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