YouTube just introduced a new way to view online video with YouTube Leanback. Log in to YouTube and visit youtube.com/leanback to start the show.
Leanback is personalized based on your profile, feeding you videos from your subscriptions and friends in real time. It even connects with facebook and allows you to watch the same videos your friends are watching. The concept frees video from the webpage, allowing a more seamless video-watching experience on your home entertainment system. Only the arrow keys and the enter key are used to navigate and select.
YouTube Leanback functions on your home PC, but its true potential comes when it is used with Google TV. Google TV is being incorporated into many new TVs and allows you to watch internet TV anywhere. It delivers full screen video in high-def and eliminates the need to watch video on a computer.
Looks like everyone can dust off that home entertainment system after all!