Time-Warner-owned TBS offers full-length reruns of Seinfeld, The Office, American Dad, and others. TNT provides original series like The Closer and Leverage. Comedy Central, which is owned by Turner & Viacom, features The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, and South Park, all favorites with the twenty-something demographic.
Even though NBC is blocking its broadcast TV shows, NBC-owned Syfy and Bravo networks are available to Google TV.
SpikeTV, owned by MTV Networks (Viacom), has programs like Entourage available to Google TV.
If a next-generation Google TV set-top box includes a digital terrestrial TV tuner, consumers could simply tune-in the free-to-air, high definition full-length broadcast programs and record them onto the built-in personal video recorder, and that solves the blocking problem.
Early adopters are likely to be the most tech-savvy users, and they will test early release products to the max. Message forums are getting hit with comments about the lack of current support for the popular Windows Media Codecs, and problems with other popular web-based Codecs.
The fact that lower-cost set-top boxes from Roku, Boxee, and NMT do support a wide range of Codecs have some bloggers asking what they get for their $300.