Google to Launch Online Video Download Service
Google Inc. said on Friday the company is expanding into two new fields with an online video store and a computer maintenance service, moves that mark stepped-up challenges to its biggest computer and media rivals, including Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo.
Google Co-founder and President Larry Page said the video marketplace would offer free programming, low-cost rentals and outright purchases of premium entertainment and sports shows ranging from episodes of 'Star Trek' to every National Basketball Association league game online, for the first time ever.
Bill Gates of Microsoft, in a previous campus talk, predicted that DVD media will eventually disappear and will be replaced by online services. His prediction unfortunately is being realized by one of his biggest competitors.
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