Will Google Make Video Production Content Providers Giggle?

"Google gave a live demonstration of Google TV at Berlin’s IFA Tuesday, and CEO Eric Schmidt promised it would be a couch potato’s dream come true.

“Once you have Google television, you’re going to be very busy,” Schmidt said. “It’s going to ruin your evening.”

...Google TV is essentially an interface, blurring the distinctions between programming you get from your cable or satellite provider with search — Google’s bread-and-butter. It is set to launch on a Sony HDTV, a Sony Blu-ray player and a Logitech set-top box in the United States this fall (other countries to follow), each with its own “incredible” remote control. After tapping a search button, a single box appears for searching the web, live television programming, recorded shows, on-demand programming, pay TV, online video clips and more...

What Google won’t do is get into the content creation business. “There’s a line that we decided not to cross,” said Schmidt. “We want to work with content providers … and we’re very unlikely to do any content production.”  To read the entire Wired article, written by Eliot Van Buskirk, regrading 'Will Google make video production content providers giggle?', click here.