Googolplexed Good News

After the disappoinments of Hulu giving up and Canvas being approved, to name but two. We were due for some good news. Google TV is it.

Every so often something appears which defines the standard and creates a new industry. Think of the IBM PC for example. The IBM PC did nothing new, in fact all it did was to put a label on existing technology that Microsoft and Intel had already created. However the existence of a de facto standard backed by a big player, created an industry which is still thriving.

We are sticking our necks out here, but Google TV looks like a new such de facto standard. The technology all exists already but someone has to enforce the protocols and make it happen; clearly Google is big enough to do this. Obviously we have yet to see this working, it could still be rubbish, but something tells us it will be good.

In terms of the TV Licence campaign this is all that we could hope for. If all the video content available on the web could be accessed through a single box, then why would anyone ever watch 'television' again?

We have to go and lie down now before it gets too much! Google TV? It needs a better name though.