Comments on: Google Video, What’s The Point?

By: Alex McKee

Alex McKee — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:39:46 +0000

ENTER ME This service is not Mac compatible, so we Mac users must go with iTunes Video Store. Oh well, I’m an Apple loyalist anyway.

By: pt

pt — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 06:44:27 +0000

whoops. posted in wrong section!

I tried this and it’s really lame! Has google hit a wall? Is there no more good companies to buy?

PS Enter me for the tivo adapter!

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:46:58 +0000

Yup, portable video has been around for years in one form or another. Heck, I was pulling video off ReplayTV 5 years ago for PDA playback.

However, Apple has the distinction of being first to sell current television programming — that’s the category I’m referring to. They’re also pushing portable video into the mainstream, rather than continuing to languish in my geeky world.

MS-based portable media centers haven’t been around all that along… less than two years. More importantly, they’ve had a low adption rate. The Zen Vision and the upcoming Gigabeat S have better specs/features and sleeker designs which should get more attention now that services like Vongo are busting out.

By: mcepat

mcepat — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:34:04 +0000

“Apple broke the seal on this category”

Thats funny because as far as I know msn.video.com and portable media centers which offer video on the go content have been around for years now?

By: headroll

headroll — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:28:19 +0000

The only remotely ‘cool’ feature of google video was the ability to preview a video by a series of screenshots and be able to jump to anyone by clicking.

-Roll

By: C_cihon

C_cihon — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:48:50 +0000

Enter Me -

I agree….this doesn’t seem well thought out. I love the idea of TV on demand via the web….but I think these companies are counting on too much profit to make these endevears succesful. Probably the best thing to do for a while is to use T2GO and roll your own portable TV shows…

By: David

David — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:57:41 +0000

Enter me

I absolutely agree, the last thing we need is another media player, especially a proprietary one like this. What happened to “Do No Evil”, Google???

On a more general topic, I also view this “portable media” craze as fairweather. Transcoding videos (be it DVDs, TiVo TV shows, etc.) to whatever format your portable device takes is sufficient, and avoids the silly $1.99 per episode “tax” that media companies are trying to get away with. Hello, I already pay for cable to get these shows once…