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YouTube comes to the Apple TV

awkwardtv.org — alanquatermain presents a video featuring “A Series of Tubes”, a plug-in by Xdog that brings YouTube to the Apple TV. Watch the AwkwardTV plug-in directory for its appearance, which can be expected to be soon.

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  • monsterenergy, on 10/11/2007, -82/+5Why should I go out and buy a apple tv box when I can sit on my couch with my wii-mote and surf the entire web...
    • sonaro, on 10/11/2007, -5/+76For the last time, you are obviously not the target market. Yes, there are plenty of alternatives, but one system with one purpose that is easy to use and made by Apple is very appealing to a lot of people. Besides, there are a lot of other things the Apple TV can do that the Wii can't. It's like saying, why should I buy a car when I already own a Zamboni?
    • danakin, on 10/11/2007, -7/+12Not to put down the Wii or anything, I love mine, but the Wii really isn't a media center by any means. However, if you were to compare an AppleTV to a mediacenter PC, I would have to agree with you.
    • supermanred, on 10/11/2007, -4/+12I use my mouse/keyboard and a 26" monitor at 1080p resolution, but im not the target market for Apple TV. Just be happy some company is making it easy to bring internet to the living room.
    • saggygrandma, on 10/11/2007, -21/+10monsterenergy your a ***** idiot...
    • wazootoo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9@sonaro: dugg for intelligent reply and using the word "zamboni"
    • tomtux, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0@saggygrandma
      Who looks like an idiot when you do not understand the meaning of your.
      "Your" shows possession when clearly you meant to use "you are" or the contraction "you're"

      Digg down this grammar Nazi.
    • Ireland, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I would have given this 10/10 if it had a cool icon, like some of the other Apple TV plug-in icons: http://plugins.awkwardtv.org/det.php?p=atvfiles & http://plugins.awkwardtv.org/det.php?recordID=streamer
    • Flytrap, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I think that most of you are missing the point here. The Apple TV is designed to extend ones iTunes media collection to the living room.

      I use the MVix Wireless HD Media Centre (MX-760HD), which I believe is a far superior general purpose media player, especially with the NDAS capability added by the latest firmware (http://www.mvixusa.com). But if I were heavily invested in iTunes and iTunes Store content, I have no doubt that the best media centre for for me would be the Apple TV. All that Apple have done is extend the iTunes/iPod ecosystem to the living room so that your iTunes media collection is no longer stuck on your PC and iPod. No one with a heavy iTunes investment in movies, music, TV episodes can ever think of the Wii/PS3/XBox as a realistic alternative to the Apple TV (just as they would not consider the Zune as an alternative means of consuming their iTunes content) and since the iTunes store regularly sells as much as 90% of all digital multimedia content on some weeks (average 80%), that means that virtually all people who are buying their digital music, movies, TV content, etc. online will likely conclude that the Apple TV is the better media player for bringing their digital media collection to the television - not the best in the world (I vote for the MVix), but the best for them.

      Fly
  • elpasoGuy, on 10/11/2007, -10/+2look mikey I think he likes it!
  • Cobainy, on 10/11/2007, -18/+2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vszCaC1A8-g&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eawkwardtv%2Eorg%2F%3Fp%3D45, without the blogspam.
    • domr, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11AwkwardTV is not "blog spam" - it's the home of most of the hacking that's currently being done on the Apple TV.
    • twit987, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1moron.
  • HerrEisenheim, on 10/11/2007, -7/+22Just what I always never wanted: the ability to watch 320x240 On2 VP6 encoded videos @ 400Kbps on an HDTV.

    What a waste. YouTube doesn't even look good when stretched out to its default 480x360, let alone 640x480. 720p or 1080p? Forget it. Just cut out a bunch of colored squares and animate the pixels yourself.
    • mattmollysdad, on 10/11/2007, -6/+4I agree...I love looking at old 1950-1960's live jazz stuff on YouTube but even on my 15" SAMSUNG SyncMaster monitor it still looks like *****. Why would I want to watch it on our large Panasonic HD TV? Even the sound out my desk top speakers is better than the TV's.
    • greysun, on 10/11/2007, -4/+10While the resolution is low, the content is massive. I've spent many hours just searching for random stuff using Xbox Media Center from the comfort of my couch.
  • mykotron, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1big whup
  • maxxin, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Cool! Keep the plug ins coming! Just missing a plug in for pornotube.com :P
    • mattmollysdad, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11now I get it. 50" porn...cool
  • osarhan, on 10/11/2007, -7/+1cool, will defo buy Apple TV when its cheaper!
  • Steven2007, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0They should have called this product "Intertubes"...
  • methodshop, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1the quality sucks, but YouTube does have thousands of clips and can provide endless hours of entertainment.
  • pu43x, on 10/11/2007, -6/+2My xbox can already do it and has been for a while
  • Billions, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Cool. Is there a way to search, or are you limited to YouTube's catagories?

    HerrEisenheim, etc. - duh. We all know YouTube is mediocre looking at best on anything other than the small browser size that it is at. But it's fun to be able to watch videos with a group of people on TV rather than crowding a group around a little laptop screen to watch 'Little Superstar' or something (I do it every now and then on my Wii).

    People asking 'Why would would I buy an AppleTV for that?' might try looking at it the other way: If you already own an AppleTV, this is cool plus.

    Also, any people seem to overlook that things like YouTube will likely imporve resoluton in the future. Or maybe they still think computers won't need more than 640k?
  • nnny, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2830221n

    this works
  • jman8888, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1ITS A SERIES OF TUBES!
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