YouTube, Meet AppleTV; AppleTV, Meet YouTube
One of my AppleTV's popped up with a "hey, there's an update" message yesterday, and I said "sure, I'll take it". I completely forgot that the YouTube update was coming out this month… so I was pleasantly surprised when the reboot was over.
First impressions - it is way, way cool. My expectations were pretty low of what the video quality would be like - people upload some really bad encodings. But the video actually looks surprisingly good. And Apple once again just nailed the simplicity of the experience - looking at clips leads to suggestions of other clips leads to other clips… I spent an hour surfing Conan O'Brian and SNL shorts before I knew it (oh, I should mention that I started at midnight… oops).
Anyway, YouTube on AppleTV gets two thumbs up - it is channel surfing for the 21st century.
Now, if only my AppleTV had a 3.5" 320 by 480 screen, a battery, 7 hours of video play time, weighed 135 grams, and was 115 x 61 x 11.6mm. And could place phone calls. I'm just sayin'.
Comments
Can't someone get this guy an iPhone?
I think you are well within your rights to expense this one to the company. Doesn't someone need to... um... test it or something.
Posted by: Stefan | June 25, 2007 11:33 PM
EXT. NIGHT - BACK ALLEY SOMEWHERE.
STREET LAMP OVERHEAD FLICKERING
SHADY GUY IN TRENCHCOAT
You can have the 3.5" screen and 7 hours of battery life. In exchange, you have to give up 152 gigabytes of storage.
CRAIG
Hmmm... I don't know... I do like me some storage....
SHADY GUY IN TRENCHCOAT
Deal?
CRAIG shakes his head, begins to inch backwards
SHADY GUY IN TRENCHCOAT
What? Hey, come back here! Opportunities like this don't come every day! It's just gigabytes, and no one really needs more than half a gigabyte anyway, right? Right? That oughta be enough for skateboarding dogs, driving cats, and phone calls to aunt Lulu. She misses you, man, she misses you
Craig turns to run
SHADY GUY IN TRENCHCOAT
(shouting)
SHE MISSES YOU!
Streetlight burns out.
SCENE.
Posted by: vmarks | June 26, 2007 1:33 PM