Update: Om just pointed out what I missed. The new Google Video service brings along with it, a new DRM system to protect the paid for videos. As one of the comments said, this is not progress. Its giving us skews of DRM solutions which are not compatible with each other. We need **one** centralized system/format which would let me play my videos on different platforms. Not sure how this new DRM would be implemented as, this service is just a online service and no hardware is involved.
Update: The news is obviously out in the ethernet. CNN confirmed the news citing un-named Wall Street Journal sources, that Google will offer paid video content in partnership with CBS, NBA and others.
Google is getting ready to uncover some of the speculated services during the upcoming CES. There have been some interesting speculations about these upcoming services, like this and this post here by Garett Rogers. He gives a nice detailed step by step description of how he discovered and speculates about one of the new upcoming services, Google Video (enhanced and probably supporting pay-per-view). It seems that Google might be getting ready to come into pay-per-video market also, using enhanced Google Video service as a vehicle.
Also if you point your browser here, you are asked to login into your Google account and then redirected to your Accounts Summary page. Looking at the initial URL (http://purchases.google.com) it seems everything is ready behind the scenes and awaiting for the keynote by Larry Page.
There were rumors that Google might launch Google PC too on this occasion, which would be a low cost PC available at Wal-mart and likes, but that was officially denied by Google in recent past.
Google is really spreading along all the possible dimensions, which might give the company a nice hold on the market.
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