In a small gathering of press this morning, YouTube unveiled YouTube XL – a new service that brings your favorite cat falling off stuff and shoddy folk cover videos straight to your TV!
While online computer-to-tv streaming services and Hulu and Boxee offer content optimized for TV, YouTube videos often didn’t even really do well in monitor full-screen mode. But YouTube XL changes that, optimizing content for viewing even on huge-screen TVs.
Although YouTube XL lacks some features of regular YouTube, (most notably the comments , yay!) YouTube XL supports playlists, HD video and even has an application called Gmote for Android phones. (Where’s the iPhone love at, YouTube?) And unlike Hulu Desktop , which needs a computer to rock and roll, you can use YouTube XL on devices with a browser such as the Wii, XBox and PS3- making the interface friendly for a larger group of users.
Wanna take it for a spin? Go on !
