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Google TV announce music partners
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 7 October 2010
Google has announced that when it launches its new TV-over-IP platform, Google TV, which will bring internet-delivered services to TV sets in the US, it will come with music stuff powered by VEVO, Napster and Pandora. So that’s fun. Telly and film content, meanwhile, will come from HBO, Turner, Netflix and Amazon.
Google TV will launch in the US later this month, though there are currently no plans to expand outside of America.
So, over here we’ll have to make do with BT Vision, Virgin Media and the in-development YouView. And given some commentators reckon YouView – backed, as it is, by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel Five, as well as Arqiva, BT and TalkTalk – will be so powerful it will stop anyone else entering the British web-TV market, you may have to make do with those three forever.
