Apple TV: Third time unlucky, Mr Jobs

"Fox and Disney have tossed around an old idea of Apple’s (about two years old) to lower the price of downloaded TV series to $0.99 from $1.99, and to allow them to be streamed.

But instead of launching it only with Apple, they are going to let everyone who can meet their terms join in. Potentially this could eventually include Google, though we must remember that most of the content businesses (studios) who supply the broadcast networks with content, hate Google passionately because of YouTube and its $1bn lawsuit for showing Viacom copyrighted content..."

from The Register

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Comment: So much content, going through so many channels... Got to be opportunities for Blinkx search functionality to help some of those companies make sense of the content and their users to search for it...

Gilder's Tenth Law (George Gilder, author of Telecosm): If you own content, you want it to flow through as many channels as possible. If you own channels, you want them to carry as much content as possible. Conflicts arrive where companies own both channels and content...

If anyone doubts the truth of that, consider the recent spat where Sky pulled Sky One from Virgin...