YouTube Leanback

http://www.youtube.com/leanback

by SandB0x • 16 years ago

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awongh3• 16 years ago

I feel like the the passive viewing experience is one area that's really been lacking for web video.... this is a pretty good start. If any youtube product guys are listening i'd like to see some 'curated' (sponsored?) channels.... that would be cool. Something to cut through all the junk- I would watch that.

ryanjmo2• 16 years ago

Currently the top YouTube channels make around 10-30K a month from ads and sponsorships (some much more). They put out really quality stuff. Just go look at the top subscribed channels and you will find some really great video creators. What your asking for already exists, it happened naturally as people became more and more popular on YouTube.

I highly recommend this guy, he has over a million subscribers: http://bit.ly/b4aivv and you should buy his iPhone app ;)

awongh3• 16 years ago

I don't think that model of viewing is that compelling- first of all because the channels are all kind of narrowly themed, second of all, it really is mostly junk... first page for most subscribed and most viewed channels? mostannoyingorange... case closed....

also, they don't cycle through the videos automatically (i.e., it's not passive) -from one video to the next, how do you find other content to watch? Most of the other videos I end up clicking on turn out to be video responses and stuff like that.... I think this part of the youtube UX is pretty broken if you're just browsing videos. Even if it was active you would want to be able to click through to another video you want to see, but it doesn't work this way.

I don't doubt that youtube is making money from their ads, but I was just suggesting if they were to pay someone to curate their content they could still make money from it.

res0nat0r• 16 years ago

Very nice.

samratjp• 16 years ago

Not a bad start at all. This could work very well with Kinect if MSFT ever decides to let in YouTube.

Synthetase• 16 years ago

The best thing about it is the lack of ads.

Does anyone know if this is done in HTML5?

zweben2• 16 years ago

It's Flash. Easy way to check, by the way, is to right click on it. If it's Flash it'll say "About Adobe Flash Player 10".

ElbertF• 16 years ago

Right click it, it's Flash...

tansey• 16 years ago

Is there a volume control? I couldn't find it.

JMiao• 16 years ago

yes, the volume control for your television.

zweben2• 16 years ago

I wasn't expecting this to really hold my attention, but I ended up watching for 25 minutes the first time I tried it.

I just hope they add a way to add videos to the favorites and view the original youtube page for a video. Also a bit annoying that you can't control it with the mouse, but they'll probably fix that.

alanh• 16 years ago

Very confusing at first, and it seems impossible to share videos. But I like the idea.

Robin_Message• 16 years ago

This redirects to http://www.youtube.com/?ytsession=vjlEKpY0_U2hKWQ_KC--4GLSYy... for me, with the helpful message "Your account has been permanently disabled." at the top of their homepage. So, what am I missing?

EDIT: Ah, I get it. Google connected a throwaway youtube account to my google account a while back. I disconnected them, which google interprets as "permanently disabled," which is not that same thing as "delete this link permanently" in my mind!

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