Google DVRs and TV Advertising

Ray writes "Google may be creating their own branded digital television DVR / satellite service. A DVR that lets you "Log In" with your Google Account before you begin your television watching would allow Google to serve up relevant ads based on: the program you are watching, your search history, the type of emails you have received in the past 24 hours (excluding spam hopefully), or anything else Google can track. Imagine the possibilities... You are watching Google Satellite TV through your "internet ready" Google DVR."

Re:"May be" creating?

[Ektanoor]

Well, I may agree that the article is speculative. It does not hide that. But note that the author states "googledvr.net/.org" and not googledvr.com. Now, while the .com belongs the God knows who, .net and .org are technically related to Google. Take a whois search for that. BTW the registrar is some eMarkMonitor... Doing a search I came into this data:

"eMarkMonitor can not only help you make your mark but it also can aid you in protecting it. The comany provides software used to manage intellectual property on the Internet, including applications for brand management and trademark management, as well as protecting Web site domains and enterprise DNS information. eMarkMonitor also provides fraud protection applications used to detecting, analyze, and combat phishing attacks. The company's customers come from a wide range of fields and typically are attorneys, marketing and brand managers, and channel managers."

Re:I'm sorry

[xiando]

Are you afraid that Google will spy on you? Edit - Preferences - Cookies - Allow sites to set cookies - Click "for the orginating web site only", select Keep Cookies: until I close Firefox That being said, there is also a lot of plug-ins like the ones who show "Page Rank" that track you. And the Google spyb.. eh, toolbar. But those are optional additions, just like keeping cookies (or accepting them at all) is a choice IF you have basic computer knowledge.

googlehdtv.com ?

[tji]

He bases his conjecture on some domains he believes were registered by google, such as googlehdtv.com.
I think Google could come up with a better name than "googlehdtv" if they really wanted to get into this game.

Anyway, apparently he doesn't know about 'whois', because he could have easily seen that this was registered by a domain speculator, not by Google.

domain: googlehdtv.com
created: 09/Apr/2004
last-changed: 09/Apr/2005

registrant-firstname: Hdtv
registrant-lastname: Websites
registrant-organization: hdtvwebsites.com
registrant-street1: 2821 egypt road
registrant-pcode: 19403
registrant-state: PA
registrant-city: audubon
registrant-phone: [phone]
registrant-email: [e-mail]

( That Slashdot "lameness filter" sucks. It wouldn't let me post the basic whois output, saying there were too many "junk characters". I have to keep adding crap to get around it.)

Move over Microsoft

[sundancekid503]

Move over Microsoft, there's a new evil empire in town.

Re:You clown

[bigpat]

Eventually google will start charging, and offer ad-free for a fee, but it's more of the same shit.

And when that happens we dump google in favor of the next company willing to compete on quality, service and price rather than rest on market share alone. That is what the free market is all about.

Google as a monopoly would be just as bad as any other company as a monopoly, but google as a competitor has increased choice and forced competitors to actually compete with new services.

Free broadcast TV, supported solely by advertisement makes just as much sense as it did in the 1950's.

Re:I'm sorry

[just_another_sean]

Yes but with the way TIVO and other DVR/DVR-like services are heading how long will you be able to enjoy the luxury of fast forwarding through commercials? It seems to me that this will get shot down sooner or later for all but the most niche programs. They already have the broadcast flag to abuse and slowly but surely as revenue on the DVR business model slips they will quietly remove the ability to skip the commercials. At least Google's being up front about it.

Re:I'm sorry

[DrSkwid]

If only there was a way I could pay some sort of one off subscription and have loads of advert free TV.

Oh, there is [bbc.co.uk]

Re:It's Bad Enough...

[wernercd]

try slysoft.com AnyDVD.

with the ability to jump past all that trash - either to MainMenu or the actual movie... its pricesless if you watch or use dvd's on your pc

DVD viewing is enjoyable again and ripping is a breeze :)

Re:You are a very interesting person.

[MaestroRC]

Sorry to continue off topic, but I have to say something here.

None of the "footage most people have never seen" on that site is conclusive, at best. The "missiles" they claim to have on footage are barely a pixel on their footage, and hardly even resolve. And, for the WTC, the structure did not collapse from the bottom, but from where the planes hit. "Missiles" to destroy the building would have been useless.

Any scrambled military craft were scrambled to shoot down any more such commercial planes.

The WTC collapsed because it was a steel structure superheated by the plane fuel igniting. The "double tremors" of the building people reported were likely caused by 1, the plane hitting the building, then the second by the fuel igniting and exploding. Those events wouldn't have happened simultaneously.

Re:blogs are news?

[staticsage]

7th word into the entry is a link to the nytimes article. [nytimes.com]

i'm pretty sure they have a decent reputation for news...

Re:DRM

[sacrilicious]

MythTv is [slowly] getting to the point when a non-linux person will be able to buy a prepackaged hardware set

Already there [magicitx.com] from at least one vendor.