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YouTube in your Living Room
Monday, June 9, 2008
Posted by Satyajeet Salgar, Partner Technology Manager - YouTube
A little after I started at YouTube I casually asked my young niece, who seemed pretty impressed when I told her that I worked here, if she'd watch YouTube on television. She thought for a while before finally asking hesitantly, "But what would YouTube look like on TV?" I have a much better answer for her these days than I did then!
The YouTube Syndication team is excited that our users now have a number of options to consume YouTube on their television sets. We're proud to have helped many leaders in the consumer electronics space create YouTube experiences on TV.
Getting YouTube right on TV is extremely challenging from both a design and technology perspective. Each of our partners' engineering and design teams had similar questions:
* What would users, accustomed to a simple remote control interface for their TVs, expect given their typcially much richer interaction options when surfing youtube.com?
* How could the YouTube experience be personalized for TV?
* How could the extra computing power and memory often required to make this work on their devices be added effectively?
* What were the most important YouTube features to retain, and how would they translate to a 10-feet user experience?
All these partners used the YouTube APIs to build their products. One partner's summary of their experience with the APIs: "The YouTube API was very simple, but powerful. It enabled us to develop our user interface flexibly and quickly." Music to our ears!
Here's a quick overview of some products that enable you to access YouTube from your living room...or anywhere else you may have your television(s)!
AppleTV
: In
June 2007
this became the first product to offer a way to watch YouTube on your TV.
Sony Bravia Internet Video Link
: Last week, Sony announced the general availability of YouTube content on their Bravia TVs via the Internet Video Link. Some clips from the YouTube team at the event are linked below.
Nice tie
, Brent!
HP MediaSmart
:
HP announced availability
of YouTube as part of the HP MediaSmart platform.
Panasonic: At
CES 2008
, Panasonic announced
VieraCast
, which allows you to
access YouTube
directly from your TV. The device will be available later this month.
Samsung: Samsung launched their IPTV device which supports YouTube (currently only available in South Korea) in early May.
TiVo
:
Announced that YouTube would be available
on their devices.
Verismo
: A startup in the IPTV space, has
announced availability
of a YouTube-enabled device.
We're excited that the YouTube APIs have enabled these products and look forward to sharing information about even more products, upgrades and innovations from our partners going forward. The following may seem like a "marketing way" to say it, but it is true! We're determined to see more devices and applications
"Powered by YouTube"
so that our vision of
"YouTube Everywhere"
feels even more real to our users.
Videos from the Sony announcement in NYC:
And some photos!
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