Do you remember hearing about the inclusion of ‘a new YouTube experience’ in Google TV? Well, the changes are now here, and include playlists and subscriptions, the company just detailed on Google TV’s official blog.
These updates to Google TV’s software go in the same direction, as the company is working on transforming YouTube into a lean back experience. With playlists, watching YouTube with Google TV becomes more and more similar to watching regular TV, blurring the frontier between Internet and TV.
There’s one big difference though, to Google’s advantage: this experience is tailored to match each users’ preferences, as playlists also include subscriptions, Favorites and content bookmarked to “Watch Later”.
Unlike TV as we know it, the experience also works both ways, as users will be able to add videos to their YouTube channel from their Google TV.
Here’s a video about YouTube’s new features on Google TV-enabled devices:
YouTube is not the only Google product to get a lift: so did its Photos app. While it already synced albums from Flickr and Picasa, it now includes a new feature called Discover. Again, the ambition here is to make the app more TV-friendly, as users will now be able to watch “an animated and constantly changing collage” of their pictures.
It’s also interesting to note that there’s more to come: “These are just two of many updates to come from Google and from lots of app developers,” Google said.
What do you think of Google TV?
as a googletv 2.0 user, i'm a bit underwhelmed by it. i guess one of my main issues i have w/GoogleTV is not really in regards to the OS itself but the input lag it creates when you attach any hdmi connected pc or video game console.
another problem i see is the lack of apps that are in the Market. Hell, facebook doesn't even have an official googletv app; but you can sideload it via dropbox or an apk. :)
i just wish we could integrate more of our local media into the Movies and Shows app on googletv and also do PIP of the media player and tv or hdmi inputs on it. most apps won't let you do PIP so why even have it? obviously PIP failed once, make that twice or five times already in the consumer non-hdtv realm and hdtv realm.
main thing for me was that i knew what i was getting into when buying my sony 24" googletv and i also got a great deal on it. for those expecting the hdtv of the future that you see in movies (ie total recall) keep dreaming. but we are getting closer!
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