According to new reports, Google is negotiating with the media industry to stream individual TV episodes via YouTube, for a fee.
YouTube currently has TV shows available, for free, with advertisements, but it appears as if Google wants to expand the business model into flat-rate video playback with no commercials. The episodes will cost $1.99 USD each and will be available the day after ... [ read the full article ]
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Could potentially work in the US but no way will this take off in the U,K.
For a start the price would be doubled and i'm sure we have enough channels on freeview that show repeats all day anyway. Oh, and then there's TvShack... :)
I don't see the point in paying for a digital (non-physical) rental. I would rather deal with 1-2 commercials and view it for free then pay $2 (or even $1) to have the commercials removed.
EDITED by Pop_Smith: My post should make since now.
^^ lol that is a great edit! but yeah i'd rather leech tv eps for free then and get them in hd then watch them with commercials or pay for them without.
$2 an episode is insane; especialy if it looks as bad as other youtube videos. I can rent a DVD with 4-6 episodes for about $1...I know these are about a month newer; so it might have a chance if the rentals were like $0.50, and were for several days, not just a pay-per-view.
