{"id":82399,"date":"2013-07-17T14:54:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T12:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=82399"},"modified":"2013-07-18T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T08:15:00","slug":"google-tv-over-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/82399-google-tv-over-the-internet.html","title":{"rendered":"Google TV over the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Internet giant <a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> is scrambling to deliver pay television online and has met with some content providers on licensing, The Wall Street Journal reports Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the Web giant goes ahead with the idea, it would join several other companies planning to offer services that deliver cable TV-style packages of channels over broadband connections,&#8221; the Journal reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a title=\"Intel Corp.\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/307489-Intel\">Intel Corp.<\/a> and <a title=\"Sony Corp.\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/347942-Sony\">Sony Corp.<\/a> are both working on similar offerings, while Apple Inc. has pitched various TV licensing ideas to media companies in the past couple of years,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s effort, if successful, has the potential to seriously undermine the current pay-cable television &#8220;ecosystem,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CgU-Ju4yydA?rel=0\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Internet news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/82287-yahoo-e-mail-requests-for-inactive-names-goes-live.html\">Yahoo e-mail requests for inactive names goes live<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/81755-biggest-south-african-websites-2.html\">Biggest South African websites<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/81569-twitter-begins-cookie-based-ad-targeting.html\">Twitter begins cookie-based ad targeting<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is scrambling to deliver pay television online and has met with some content providers on licensing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":82405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[6434,7979],"class_list":["post-82399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-google-tv","tag-quicknews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82407,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82399\/revisions\/82407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}