| Thursday, June 21, 2007 |
09:23 - The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here!
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AppleTV owners, heads up: YouTube integration has been delivered. Early, too, no less.
It's pretty sweet. There's a little on-screen letter picker for clumsy searching, and there are the usual server-generated collections of Top Rated, Most Watched, and so on; but what I hadn't expected, and what makes the feature really genuinely useful and dispels my skepticism, is that it allows you to log in with your YouTube username/password, after which you have access to your Favorites list. So if you want to search in a manner that doesn't feel like you're driving a car with brooms for arms, you just go to your PC, search for what you want, add it to your Favorites, and then go call it up on AppleTV. You can then even rate it from there or flag it as inappropriate.
The video isn't, like, DVD-quality or anything... but it's not like I expected that. And the OK Go/Treadmills video looks and sounds just dandy.
UPDATE: What beats the OK Go video? The Diet Coke & Mentos video.
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Brian Tiemann
