Comments on: Google entering video-on-demand business

Service will let users pay 99 cents to $3.95 for recent and classic movies, TV shows, sports games.

[naterandrews]

Interesting..

This could be a very interesting move on Google's part. I wonder which format the videos will be in? (I can think of one format they wont be in).

The Pay-Per-View approach seems a bit pricey, as do some of the other programs. I would love to see a future video war between Google and Microsoft.

[paulsecic]

AOL

AOL will show classic CBS shows for free. I wouldn't pay for dumb reality shows.

[Earl Benser]

Who needs Divx?????

MPEG-4/h.264 is already available. And where in the article is Divx
even mentioned?

Google Pack sounds like q good idea. but over 15% of the US
computer users are excluded by Google's Windows-only design.
The article mentions Mac, but the Google site information on
Google Pack says no.

[Cyrus_K]

One more reason I say AnooX is the search engine leader now

Google getting into Video selling business, is one more reason to realize that AnooX is now the pure play search engine leader.
Because AnooX does nothing but search and because of the following reasons listed here on AnooX site:
http://www.anoox.com/whyanooxsrbetter.jsp

To see why AnooX is the search engine leader, specially read the last paragraph, I mean the one starting with:
"Put quite simply, it is not that the AnooX search engine is more intelligent ...."

Go People Power, Go AnooX :)
Down with the Big media Google & Yahoo & CNN, etc. style of wanting to control peoples mind.

[bobby_brady]

How much DRM?

That's not mentioned.

[talkintech]

What's the Big Deal

This article point to how "this is the first time video distribution has been made available on a wide scale..."...blah, blah, blah, but hasn't Apple been doing this for sometime now with better prices, better selection and no rental expirations? As for the "wider scale" I don't know what you've been hearing but as far as I can deduct iTunes is a pretty large scale.

[SethShapiro]

What's the storefront?

Pay Per View, like DVD via Walmart and Target, is an impulse item. So the key to monetizing video online is matching the consumer with what they'd be willing to buy right then. Google hasn't shown that they can sell products yet ? only ads for products. We'll need to see what user experience they can create in this space.