Comments on: YouTube Introduces “TV Website” For Nintendo Wii and Sony PS3

By: omegavesko

omegavesko — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:11:02 +0000

The videos aren’t in HD because unfortunately, the Wii isn’t an HD console. If I remember correctly, it’s… 480p?

This isn’t much of a problem in games, seeing how you can justify jaggies with better gameplay, but you really can’t find an excuse when it’s Youtube you’re talking about.

That said, I’m used to watching videos in as low as 240p due to my slow net connection, so this shouldn’t be much of an issue for me.

By: omegavesko

omegavesko — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:06:35 +0000

FAIL. The public beta was already up at the time of writing. Attention hog much? =\

By: PS3

PS3 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:22:30 +0000

I don't think this works really that well for TV viewing - it's just too difficult to see the screen properly from your armchair. I suppose usability will get better as things develop though.

By: Todays Freebies

Todays Freebies — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:30:40 +0000

this is cool might go try it out only new about youtube on ps3

By: Xbox360

Xbox360 — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:51:17 +0000

always good to see youtube

By: freemobile

freemobile — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:31:25 +0000

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By: YouTube Launches XL: Browser-Based TV

YouTube Launches XL: Browser-Based TV — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:20:47 +0000

[...] which had previously been beta-released as YouTube TV, will give access to almost all YouTube content, but not some premium content. [...]

By: Free DSi

Free DSi — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:21:06 +0000

Awesome, I never realised I could do this.

Thanks for the information. :D

By: Free DSi

Free DSi — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:43:34 +0000

i actually never knew about the TV version for the Wii (maybe thats because i dont use it anymore) however, its good to know that i can start to use it for vids just like the PS3, to a lesser extent of course.

By: good post

good post — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:02:15 +0000

I wanted to comment and thank the author, good stuff

By: Wii

Wii — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:22:14 +0000

Thanks for the information. Bookmarked your site.

By: tedchandler

tedchandler — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:00:52 +0000

Currently, it lacks a lot of things for 'couch-viewing'; however, they will figure it all out. That is why they call it a 'beta.' What excites me about it, is we are continually moving in the right direction to having one or two consoles controlling content from any source I want, whether it be user generated content from the web, professional tv, webinars, video games, blue-ray. that is the future of this stuff, and as a content creator myself, that is exciting!

By: Tony LaRocca

Tony LaRocca — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:28:50 +0000

The video frame-rate on the /tv channel is much worse than if I just go to youtube.com on my wii.

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:20:28 +0000

I personally can;t get into viewing youtube on my Wii or PS3. I've tried it, and I just don;t like what i see on such a high quality setup, and no i would not consider the Wii in HD high quality.

I guess there would need to be a easier way to jump into the video instead of me navigating to it. Normally I receive links to videos and I view them, rarely do i roam around YouTube looking for them. These new experiences will be useful when needed but until there is a way to have them go viral within the game system, sharing links between friends on the PS3, or from Home, which i currently don't use. Not sure how this can be done on the Wii since users are basically locked out, a Wii channel that allows users to connect and share videos would be cool, but I would need to go into that app to receive such a notification, unless this is tied to the message system within the main UI.

Using these apps as a point of retrieval, say if you saved the video in your youtube account for later viewing, but I think it's safe to say thats a rare usage, unless it;s one of those rare clips that you just have to see again.

THis will be further defined over time, but until there is a way for me to easily jump to a video from the recommendation of some source that is easy to receive, I don't see it being too big. But I'm sure that will change soon enough.

By: NE

NE — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:05:13 +0000

Long time before this is available for the common masses :)

By: Matt_

Matt_ — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:29:47 +0000

Im hoping that sites like YouTube ,Hulu or Joost for example will end up creating dedicated channels on the Wii with WiiWare via a revenue share agreement with Nintendo .The Wii browser has not been updated in quite a while and only supports Flash 7 and with all the video services planed for the Wii this year in Japan it might not be in Nintendos best interest to update when the browser when they can get developers to create content for it Wiiware platform where it can make even more money form the cash cow that is the Wii.

In Japan Fujisoft has created a low resource video player for devices and will launch its Everybodys Theatre for Wii in Japan on january 27th on Wiiware as a pay per view video streaming service .The ULEXIT video player can play H.264 and ACC and supports DRM .

http://www.fsi.co.jp/e/solution/Video_Player_Solution/index.html