Google TV and blip.tv

Every once in a while a product comes along which promises to change the way people live their lives. Google TV is one such product. We’ve had a Google TV in our New York office for a few months now. It’s good. Very good. The main reason why it’s so good is that it, once and for all, seamlessly combines traditional broadcast, cable and satellite television with Internet video. It will be as easy to watch a blip show on the web as it will be to watch a broadcast TV show, and both will be on the same screen. This is fundamentally good for producers and fundamentally good for viewers.

We’ll offer an enhanced version of blip.tv that’s optimized for viewing on Google TV. This new interface will allow you to watch blip.tv shows in your living room on the best screen in the house… without effort, without extra work, without pain. We’re very excited. We’re at the beginning of a new age, when anyone anyone with talent and drive can access audiences… and audiences can decide what’s best for them.

Bill Gates has a saying: people always overestimate the amount of change in the short term and underestimate the amount of change in the long term. That is as true now, in this situation, as it has ever been. Google TV will take a while to change the way people produce and consume video. But it — and the other products it inspires — will most definitely, over time, change the way we think about television itself. And that will be a fundamentally good thing.

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    I’m not gonna lie, this gets me excited about Google TV.
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    I want my GOOG TV…
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    Best Tumblr post of the year.
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    Brilliant news - congratulations...future! HigletFilms chose
  13. hyperallergic reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
    Glad to hear that Google TV will help make Hyperallergic TV programs on Blip.tv easier to watch!
  14. markgantt reblogged this from evangotlib and added:
    I think this is really exciting times for filmmakers. You will always be fighting for eyeballs but to have it on the TV...
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    Just one more reason indie show creators should be on Blip.
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    work properly, though, we all need to let...we want Net Neutrality
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