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Abi
29-09-2005, 20:00
Internet giants GOOGLE are bidding to tighten their hold onto cyberspace- by showing TELE.
The company have already clinched a deal with a US TV channel and begin discussions with the BBC on offering the service.

HOW IT WILL WORK

Copies of shows will be stored on Googles internet servers
Users will go to video.google.com to search for the programmes
Once you select something to watch, it will be sent over the net to your screen
Surfers will be able to fast-forward, pause or rewind shows
Viewers will NOT be able to save shows onto their hard disk to save later


SOURCE: The Sun Newspaper
$sTaCeY$
29-09-2005, 21:01
Sounds cool tv on the pc :rolleyes:
Luna
29-09-2005, 21:10
Yeah i heard this on the news this morning
Tori
30-09-2005, 17:54
they are taking over the world!
Abi
30-09-2005, 21:49
It seems like it, does it.

I think they do Image hosting as well now, like ImageShack and PhotoBucket do
Tori
01-10-2005, 10:52
yeah... it's picasa. i don't like it though... i tried it once and i really couldn't use it!!
Abi
01-10-2005, 19:20
I woinder what they'll come up with next
Tori
01-10-2005, 19:56
anti virus software?
CrazyLea
01-10-2005, 23:10
will you have to pay for the tv thing??
Carrie Bradshaw
01-10-2005, 23:20
will you have to pay for the tv thing??
I don't know, but if you don't, it sounds like a really good deal!
Tori
02-10-2005, 13:50
well everything else about google is free so iuldn't have thought so
Abi
02-10-2005, 15:54
It didn't say anything about the fact that you would have to, so i'd expect that you dont. As she said, everything else to do with google is free, so it owuld be odd if this one thing you did have to pay for.
Tori
02-10-2005, 17:40
yeah... unless its sneaky charges
Abi
03-10-2005, 12:35
Maybe...

I guess that would make a lot of sense
Tori
03-10-2005, 17:12
well who offers tv for free??
Abi
03-10-2005, 20:15
Exactly, and if its the BBC then they get all the license fee so they would want money as well, which can't come from no where
Tori
03-10-2005, 20:18
yeah.... it's strange they'd offer it for free. there must be some kind of catch
.:SpIcYsPy:.
04-10-2005, 21:28
My dad has TV on his PC well cool!! Google does alot of things and that's why its soooo well known!!
Carrie Bradshaw
04-10-2005, 21:34
If you have a TV card for your PC and this is your only television source, then you are still supposed to pay your TV license as if you had an actual TV set so I'm guessing you will be expected to pay the TV license fee as usual for this Google thing. It would be harder to keep track of though!
Abi
05-10-2005, 11:22
You never know what they're going to invent next though
Tori
05-10-2005, 15:55
yeah... next it'll be dvds!! i want tv on my pc, but i don';t really wa5tch much, so theres no point to getting one!!