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| Google to launch Video Marketplace |
| Sunday, January 08, 2006 at 17:08 by Rich Kavanagh |
Live from the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Google announced the planned opening of the Google Video Store, the first open video marketplace enabling consumers to buy and rent a wide range of video content from a major television network, a professional sports league, cable programmers, independent producers and film makers.
This fast growing collection of videos will include prime-time and classic hits from CBS, a full slate of NBA games from this season and outstanding performances from the past, music videos from SONY BMG, Charlie Rose interviews as well as news and historical content from ITN and new titles being added everyday.
Larry Page, Google's co-founder and president said,
"Google video will let you watch lots of high quality video on the web for the first time. You can search and browse, and we make it fast and easy for you to watch. For video producers and anyone with a video camera, Google Video will give you a platform to publish to the entire Google audience in a fast, free and seamless way."
People who visit the Google Video homepage at http://video.google.com will be able to browse listings of video by category from the store or search Google's entire collection of videos by simply entering keywords into the search box.
Leslie Moonves, President and CEO, CBS Corporation said,
"This is yet another exciting platform in which CBS can leverage its market-leading content to a whole new audience. Making our programming accessible to the Google Video Store guarantees our shows significant new exposure to millions of users who are likely to access this Web service and who may not be traditional TV viewers. As the industry's most prolific generator of popular TV content, it's only natural that CBS would partner with Google on this service, which is destined to become one of the web's most popular destinations."
CBS's current prime-time hits will include CSI, NCIS, Survivor and The Amazing Race. Library classics will include The Brady Bunch, The Twilight Zone, MacGyver and various Star Trek variations. All CBS programs will be presented commercial-free.
Google Video will also feature NBA games from this season and some of the greatest individual performances in NBA history. Music videos from Sony BMG will also feature heavily.
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| well worth the effort, the beta site is useful for finding clips and material of all sorts, its fast to access the video too. nice one.
The BBC have opened up their archives for the frs time as well, again only a beta, in the guise of being for visual mixers jocks. Some decent video tools at last, bring on the age of video. |
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