Introducing Digg TV
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​A little more than a year old, Digg Video is pretty great. From out of the endless weeds of the Internet we have cultivated a wonderful garden of videos you actually want to see, from timely and important news pieces to bizarre endeavors plucked from uncanny corners of YouTube and beyond.

But what if you want to sit back and enjoy Digg's expertly curated videos but don't want to get popcorn butter all over your keyboard?

That's what Digg TV is for.

Videos on Digg now come with a TV Mode button:

 

That button pulls the video up into the Digg TV player:

 

Sit back and enjoy your full-screen, autoplaying video experience, organized by channel or your own collection of saved Digg videos.

When you click on Explore, you'll see the full range of Digg Video's human-curated, topical channels:

 

Digital video is getting better — the viewing experience should be too. Most videos are presented amidst clunky interfaces or inline in articles, and, even if you go fullscreen, when your video is over you need to hunt for the next. YouTube playlists are fine, but run up against the exact problem that Digg is built to solve: there is a lot of crap out there. Can someone please curate the good stuff? Thanks for asking, Internet. We can. We did. We have some suggestions.

When you're feeling serious, check out Documentary, Short Film, or Science. For laughs, click Funny or Cute. When you're hungry, Food. When curious, try Curious. Feeling handy? How-to. Retro? Histories. In a creative mood? We've got videos on Architecture, Art, Books, Culture, Design, and Photography. Need for speed? Cars or Aviation. Looking for action? Sports. (Or Lust). Feeling love for your fellow humans? Cities. Sick of your fellow humans? Nature or Animals. Too tired to type "TMZ" into your browser? We've got excellent videos about Movies, TV, and Fame, along with great clips from Late Night. When you're awash in self-loathing, we recommend Gross. (Or Politics). And when you're feeling unable to escape how everyone still treats you like an adolescent, perhaps a dose of Animation or Comics.

Watching video online is rapidly chipping away at the mammoth time sink of humanity that is Big Media-provided broadcast television. Over the last year alone millennials watched 20% less traditional TV and 33% more digital video than just the year before (!) according to a report by Nielsen. We want to help accelerate that trend by making it much easier to find, and more fun to watch, the videos Digg curates.

Digg TV is still in beta. Tell us what your greedy little eyeballs desire. Some features that may come depending on how much you want it:

  • Use your phone as a remote control
  • Support more video sources (currently only YouTube and Vimeo are supported)
  • Save videos from anywhere on the Internet and watch them on Digg TV
  • Integrate with Chromecast, perhaps Apple TV, and other streaming dongles and boxes

Digg already has the entire Internet running through our blood. There are many excellent videos out there. Witness them in Digg's new TV mode.

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