Saturday, October 1, 2011

My YouTube Leanback Experience

A while ago I found the YouTube Remote app for my Android phone. I started playing around with it and found that, in combination with my laptop it proved extremely useful when I wanted to watch videos and listen to music. With more time playing with it, I started looking through the settings and found that it had a feature where I could connect with my YouTube pals on a local screen and add videos to the queue. I found this extremely interesting and instantly tried to find someone to try it with.

     When my friend and I got all set up it proved extremely FUN. We could just sit back and throw on some awesome videos to the queue and just start bringing up all the cool things we've found in the past. He put on a pronunciation video where a word would pop up and it would say the word three times. I was quite confused as why he would post something like that, but it started to make sense when the next video popped up and it would say the word in a very incorrect manner. We laughed and laughed as the his part of the queue got more and more ridiculous.

    Even as silly as it really is, this is an awesome example of technology becoming mature enough to appeal to everyone, and it still blows me away that this isn't mainstream yet even though the software isn't quite ready. Yea, we ran into a bunch of bugs. But they didn't distract from the overall experience.
This by itself made me figure out what I really want: high speed internet, big giant monitor, and a PC combo. I was thinking about a Google TV box, but at the moment it's not the best. Right now it's appless. Everything a Google TV can do, a nice modest PC can. This whole set is really cheap, give or take.

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