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http://www.apple.com/appletv/

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/05/30appletv.html

Cool... except who has AppleTV?

OMG YOUTUBE VIDEO!
That is truly new and innovative.

Wake me when the ***** does tivo.

“This is the first time users can easily browse, find and watch YouTube videos right from their living room couch, and it’s really, really fun,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.

sorry, steve, i have this thing called a wii. it lets me do that anyways. and it plays games. and i get the whole internet. and it was cheaper. i also have a $5 s-video cable that plugs in my laptop to accomplish said youtube/tv watching. welcome to 2007 mr. jobs.

I dunno... youtube quality videos on Apple TV? How would that work?

Wow, everything you can do on a apple tv you can do for under half the cost on a modded xbox. Including YouTube.

It'd be just as easy to write a plugin for Media Center. Now everyone has YouTube on their TV.

Except the quality of the video would be horrible...

Huge Pixelated videos FTW. Go apple.

This is a little bit late, seeing as my Wii can do YouTube,

I'm planning on getting an AppleTV, however, this youtube business doesn't really do anything for me. I've been watching youtube shorts on my TV since the Wii's browser dropped.

Pfffttt... My wii does this and so does my xbox w/ xbmc.

What? Everyone else is saying it. Why can't I?

I'd like to see them be innovative and jump onto divx stage 6.. Not only would it say alot about the quality they demand but it would also bring more people over to divx...

Call me old fashioned, but TV just doesn't feel right without 10+ minutes of advertising for each 30 minute show.

To answer Steve's question, "No!" It's a pain in the ass watching youtube as it is. The quality looks like diarrhea mixed with bird *****, mixed with pigs vomit, and a little bit of period blood.

NETGEAR can do this.

More than anything I'm curious about the interface they plan to use to play youtube videos.
Will there be an on screen keyboard to search?
Will they give access to the entire site, or a predefined list of videos?

When you get down to it, the Apple TV is simply downloading and playing flash video. If it's done right, I can see Apple opening this to all flash video distributors. Just wrap your content in an RSS-like feed the Apple TV understands, add your feed to Apples directory, and now you have access to countless "RSS Channels" right on your TV. Since many networks have flash version of their shows on their sites, this can lead to an "ABC Channel" and an "NBC Channel" (etc..) on your Apple TV.

Wow, once again something I can already do with Orb (newest beta) and my Xbox360 (after Fall update).

AWESOME!

I have a question. Can you watch YouTube using a Wii or an xbox?

blah Apple TV it doesnt do Internet

http://www.techavid.com

I can stream to my Xbox (XBMC), Xbox 360 or PS3 from a standard DLNA (Pnp AV) server and not to an Apple TV or iTunes?

If Sony and MS can find their way to supporting standard servers for streaming, Apple should be able to also.

Windows Media Center has done with for a long time.

That's huge.

This content has been removed on 60" Plasma will really mean it!

the apple TV is cheaper, slimmer, and more elegant than a 360.

also, it doesn't play ***** games like halo.

Seriously...it's youtube. Who cares? I mean, I can view it on my Wii, but I don't. If you want to watch crappy user created videos, you probably shouldn't do it in the living room.

I've been doing it with my XBOX for like a year now.

Finally AppleTV comes alive with Youtube. While Youtube quality is not good on TV, it does have a great collection of videos which will cater to people's long tail desires.

BTW, I have been accessing Youtube on the TV with Wii/PS3 since the beginning of 2007. Check out sites like moowee.tv and sofatube which make it easier to access Youtube content on the TV through a Nintendo Wii.

I love how the independent homebrew scene does something then years later a big corporation trys to copy it. youtube on the tv is cheap and inexpensive. screw the apple tv

Hmmm, where are the Nintendo fanboys to point out how Apple is ripping off the big N? Would be kind of ironic...

I'm surprised nobody seemed to mention that YouTube on AppleTV has already been done:

http://www.awkwardtv.org/static/45.html?p=45

Digg me down if you feel I'm too much of an AppleTV fanboy, but I personally love my AppleTV. Even if it's pricey and a bit frivolous, it's a fun box to hack since it's really just a scaled down Mac OSX. Just install sshd, some codecs, and some file mounts, and you can stream videos from your computer to your HDTV, run Apache, install plugins remotely, etc. The remote control and interface are extremely slick, and even if the XBox already had this functionality for years, it can't compare to the user experience of the AppleTV.

I'm not sure how easy it's gonna be to access YouTube without a mouse through the AppleTV. I've been using my wii all the time and recently came across a site called moowee.tv which seems to make it really easy. Does anyone have a video demo of Youtube on the AppleTV?

I already know how to get youtube videos ipod so whatever

I'm going on a limp here and assume a lot of you didn't rtfa. The would not talk about thousands of video's available at launch with the full catalog available later if it was just your vanilla connect to youtube and watch. This sounds more like they get access to the higher quality files (which youtube might still have lying about.).

but i can watch youtube on the Wii, why whould i do it on the apple tv too?

4:36pm New York Attack of the show says "breaking news: YouTube Videos on Apple TV" i really wish G4 would die. Today all they had was corny pig jokes about the kid who shot that huge pig with a pistol.

i'll wait to get an apple tv until YouTubeHD is released

um last time i checked youtube was on the apple tv. its a plugin

I'm not sure if other console browsers work, but the Wii's browser works for YouTube and Last.FM. Now, if only the Wii would support a decent video codec... MJPEG ain't very efficient.

Cool... except who has AppleTV?

I think most of us are missing the point here.
The fact that Apple TV supports YouTube mean that Apple TV now supports Flash.
I don't think it is a web browser like the other console does it.

Anybody know the detail on this ?

Another nice alternative to Aplpe TV is ToxTox. An open media platform for your TV based on Mozilla. Still in development but worth a try: http://toxtox.tv/

320x240 content at H.263 ~300kb/s on a TV... sigh.

Keep the horrible quality video where it belongs, folks: in tiny windows so to not maul the eyes with blocks.

Now, if there was any easier way to stream Stage6 (http://stage6.divx.com) to one's TV than using a cumbersome XMBC hack or a DivX DVD Player, I would spring for it.

And as for buying the Apple TV - for the hacks, it's not too bad.

So - it's 14th June now - one day before it is released? 15th=mid June right?

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