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We have high hopes that Google TV will evolve into something magical
and wondrous over the next year or so as its namesake adds apps and
features to flesh out the platform's somewhat underwhelming current
state. Today, though, it just got a little less attractive thanks to a
move by Viacom to block full episodes from streaming on your Logitech
Revues and your Sony Internet TVs and the like. We've confirmed with
our own Revue that attempting to stream episodes from network sites
like MTV, Nickelodeon, and Comedy Central show messages like "this
content is not available for your device," which is an unfortunate and
frustrating change. Yes, the user agent tweak still works, but
wouldn't it be nice if we could all just get along? Surely Google is
still working on its content partnership agreements and hopefully
things will improve in the future, but given how friendly the
company's past dealings with Viacom have been we're not optimistic
about this particular front.
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