YouTube TV invades your PS3, Wii

Couch potatoes, rejoice: now you can watch YouTube in your living room on your big-screen television.

YouTube announced its union with Sony and Nintendo to bring YouTube for Television (that's http://www.youtube.com/tv -- a link only accessible via a game console) through the PlayStation 3 and Wii, respectively.

YouTube for Television offers "a dynamic, lean-back, 10-foot television viewing experience" for Internet connected consoles, according to the promos. YouTube has also simplified the experience by enlarging text and streamlining navigation to function better on the Wii and PlayStation 3's built-in Web browsers. Check out the PlayStation 3 walk-through and see how simple it looks to start vegging out in style:

An optional auto-play capability also allows users to view related videos sequentially, just like flicking through cable programs.

This move into the gaming world heralds an era wherein YouTube will be available through a bunch of different devices, just like Netflix has done. During the course of CES 2009, YouTube showed up on new televisions, threatening to become as ubiquitous as Netflix's integration into new tech.

So what's missing? Microsoft's Xbox 360, of course. The number two contender in the console wars is mysteriously absent from YouTube's announcement. Microsoft's one-up in this battle is its acquisition of Netflix before its rivals, but with streaming television being the next big thing, that may not be enough.

Source: PC World

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monkbaine

Youtube was accessible on PS3 for many months now.I'm surprised the reports come in just now. When you go to the PS3 web browser there is a tab for Youtube waiting for you. You can upload from your hard drive as well. Pretty cool.

slm90031

"Microsoft's one-up in this battle is its acquisition of Netflix before its rivals, but with streaming television being the next big thing, that may not be enough."

I like YouTube on my PS3 however it does not compare to Netflix on the 360. "Streaming television?" Umm..what TV shows can you watch on YouTube?

Existential_11

Youtube.com like facebook.com lost their appeal to me when they became mainstream and sold out and thus became littered with garbage. I can't blame the creators, I would have done the same thing.

I'm just saying this is meaningless and as a Wii/PS3 owner I can say xbox is getting the better deal with netflix. Damn licensing, otherwise every console could have everything! ;)
Youtube is useless since they censor everything now and are becoming stricter.

LittleAnnieTroogles

why would you want to watch someone else's crappy home videos on your TV?

useless.

CamLewis

This just underlines a lingering question for the Xbox 360: where the heck is the browser?

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FTPoed

Oh please, seeing how well they did with their last attempt at a browser, that is the last thing my cohorts and I would ever want.

PS3's browser is bad too. It's not even based off the engine of any of the big 3 (or 4 if you count Opera), it's some weird port of an obscure, abandoned codebase.

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eday_2010

LittleAnnieTroogles wrote:

why would you want to watch someone else's crappy home videos on your TV?

useless.

Yes! Very true.

YouTube is the worst thing on the world wide web since...well, ever. I'll pass on watching PooTube in my livingroom. The quality of most videos is already crappy on a computer monitor. I don't need to see it look even worse blown up on a 52" screen.

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