HP brings YouTube to MediaSmart connected products

by Darren Murph, posted May 7th 2008 at 6:33PM

As YouTube slowly but surely sneaks its way into the connected home, we just keep telling ourselves it'll support high-def content one day. If and when that day ever arrives, owners of HP MediaSmart connected entertainment products will definitely be ready to take full advantage, as a recent announcement has brought the internet video king's content to Hewlett-Packard wares. The deal will enable MediaSmart TV owners and those that purchase the forthcoming MediaSmart Connect digital media receiver to simply login to their YT account via the remote, but there's really no details beyond that. If you're cool with pixelated video blown up to 50 or more inches, give it a go and let us know how it turns out. As for us, we'll be waiting for YouTube HD.

Filed under: Displays, Media streamers, Other hardware, Set-top boxes, Internet

Tags: hp, internet video, InternetVideo, mediasmart, mediasmart tv, MediasmartTv, youtube

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Mark @ May 7th 2008 6:43PM

I looked at the MediaSmart TV's, and I have to say...the 'media' part..is severely limited.

Here are the supported video formats: MPEG, DivX, XVID, DVR-MS, WMV and AVI

What..an HD television that can't stream h.264?..Blu-Ray streams? Or even DVD streams?

And they expect you to pay a premium for a gimped product??

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Video Master @ May 7th 2008 6:47PM

I love how all of these PC products copy Apple!

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Bill @ May 8th 2008 12:35PM

media smart was here LONG (im talkin years) before apple tv or even front row.

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webcreation @ May 17th 2008 10:28AM

Watch YouTube HD - higher definition, and download MP4 videos, check this site :

http://www.ouideo.com/youtube/

Really good !

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