GOOGLE TV

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Lifer
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Fvck Ads! Think about a cable TV service that let's you pick as many or as few channels for some sort of tiered rate.

Like, if I only wanted local channels + Weather + CSPAN + CNN + FoxNews + Discovery + TLC + History + SPEED... I would get those only and pay, say, $4.95/month. HDTV would cost an extra $1.99/month. Something like that.
 

misle

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Is GoogleTV going to be like CurrentTV (the Google/Al Gore network) because CurrentTV is absolutely terrible.
 

JoLLyRoGer

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I actually saw this station on my DirecTV the other night. I turned it on for just long enought to say "Look honey, now Google's got a TV station too! :roll:"

Man, I wish I'd bought Google stock way back when...

Or, maybe it was Current TV and the timeslot had Google listed. I can't exactly remember.

EDIT: Yeah that was it, it was on Current TV and the timeslot said "Google Current...


Look at channel 366
 

KEV1N

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Maybe a Google tivo unit that pulls information from the web while you're watching TV. Think sports..
 

shilala

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Originally posted by: misle
Is GoogleTV going to be like CurrentTV (the Google/Al Gore network) because CurrentTV is absolutely terrible.

No, it's going to be like MTV, because we can never get a large enough diet of vacant, self-absorbed, idiot sluts.