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Google to World: "We're Not There Yet"
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The Internet will swallow up the TV market, but it may take a little time, Google announced yesterday. The Internet giant, whose online video assets include YouTube, "warned" consumers that it is still not capable of providing consumers with TV-resolution quality Internet video.
According to a story posted by Reuters, Google TV tech chief Vincent Dureau told a group of European cable execs that "[We are] not going to offer the quality of service that consumers expect." But the real question isn't when the company's tech wizards will catch up with the flatscreen market, but how.
According to Reuters, "Google instead offered to work together with cable operators to combine
its technology for searching for video and TV footage and its tailored
advertising with the cable networks' high-quality delivery of shows." In other words, the only real question is how the copyright issues will be ironed out before it's too late. Stay tuned...
