In response to the Launch of Google TV, Google announced Leanback, a new site that is designed specially to browse Youtube in TV. It is predicted that it is revealed as preview of Google TV interface. But its not the prediction, its the fact that Google Officials wrote in Youtube Blog. Youtube has also launched a new mobile site which enables us to watch videos in new way and is HTML5 compatible.
Youtube leanback is all about letting you relax and enjoy the Youtube videos that plays as soon as you visit the site and they will play in full screen mode with high definition quality. Its very easy to use this, no need to click, search, browse(unless you would like to). YouTube has launched a new site for mobile users (m.youtube.com) and now they support HTML 5.
Youtube Blog made a point that ” Watching Youtube becomes as easy as watching TV”
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View Youtube Lean Back is social, User and TV friendly, auto-translation subtitles and many more. It consists of a Feed that which plays the videos based on the category that you have subscribed to Youtube. This feed by basing on your Youtube settings, by considering the preferences, subscription, and videos that you shared with your friends.
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You are also allowed to select your prescribed category manually that which makes this to play popular videos, short films, news, release notes and many more including comedy and music videos.
This is controlled entirely with your keyboard Arrow and Enter keys
- Pressing up or down arrow key displays a search bar, that helps you to browse through various categories and also gives you access control to basic videos
- The righ and left arrow keys helps you to navigate or selecting the items.
- Enter key to skip videos, search, pause or resume a video.
YouTube Leanback is currently in beta, but you to try it out at Youtube Lean Back.













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Great post Siddartha as usual! I did not know it. I surely will give a try. Thanks for sharing.
With Youtube Leanback, we have one more reason to be a couch potato…
Great! now Advertising on Television will become far cheaper. Currently though I cant afford
GOOOOOD article i had tried it on the video u have provided in this article ha ha ha
good article but for this you need a good internet speed