Google, YouTube to team up with Matsushita to deliver internet-enabled flat screen televisions

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1. Google, YouTube to team up with Matsushita to deliver internet-enabled flat screen televisions Japan Economy News & Blog - Business, Economy, Marketing and Economic Reports | Cars, Boats, Vehicles & Parts News on January 8th, 2008 6:48 am

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2. Ken Y-N on January 8th, 2008 8:27 am

   Picasa is Google’s free image manipulation program - maybe they have recently expanded it to a poor man’s flickr?

   I saw the headline in today’s paper on the train, thought “Yeah! We can finally get decent mail and scheduling intranet apps!” but now see it is just a channel for AcTVila in the US.

3. Ken Worsley on January 8th, 2008 11:27 am

   Sorry Ken, that was sarcasm about Picasa. Maybe I should’ve linked to it to make that obvious…

   I didn’t mention Actvila because it’s a pay service and this one is free…there’s just not enough details out there on this one yet to really compare the two.

4. Albrecht on January 9th, 2008 1:12 am

   So is this going to prevent Japanese television manufacturers from becoming commoditized monitor manufacturers?

5. B Dog on January 9th, 2008 3:42 am

   Better yet, how much value does this really add to a TV? Haven’t seen anything on pricing yet, though it is a good step towards the future, which will be on-demand.

6. Garrett on January 9th, 2008 5:56 am

   I’m thinking, for now at least, this is going to be one more thing that looks cool at the tech shows but that few people are actually going to buy, which is what counts.

7. Ken Worsley on January 9th, 2008 11:01 pm

   I think what counts is more what they will develop it into rather than quarterly sales figures at this point. It’s a first step, and they want to get ahead in this market because although this product is actually pretty useless (YouTube fullscreen already looks bad), something better is going to follow. Best to have the content-delivery system already in development than be flat-footed on it.

8. Albrecht on January 10th, 2008 10:29 am

   I agree with Garrett in that this will look great at CES this week, but it won`t generate a lot of sales, look at Activila. However, as Ken said, there is a need for the development of a next generation product. But can they absorb carrying the costs until a model that really works come to market?

9. John s on January 10th, 2008 11:26 am

   They have no choice but to absorb costs, and Google should have little trouble with that. if the individual TV makers have to compete on this, they are all going to waste a ton of cash. Hopefully some sort of ‘open’ solution comes about, whether that be hardware, a simple chip or software.

10. Yapp on January 10th, 2008 11:54 pm

    Once they show it’s possible and come up with some sort of payment system, it’s bound to take off. Then again, the writers could be on strike forever.

11. Albrecht on January 11th, 2008 1:29 am

    I’m not worried about Google affording it, but am a curious about how much Panasonic is willing to dump into this.

12. Kraig on January 11th, 2008 2:59 pm

    They’re spending 30 billion yen to change their name. This has to be worth more than that.

13. Helene Salewicz on October 1st, 2009 5:29 pm

    And there were still so many issues that have not been blogged, yet.

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