Google last night launched an ambitious new Youtube spin-off site called Youtube XL – designed for access from web-enabled televisions or large computer screens.
The idea is that with content on demand currently revolutionising how we watch video content as entertainment on our computers – there is great potential to extend this too to the screens in our living rooms. Sounds like good sense to me…
Youtube XL features a far more de-cluttered interface than the version we are used to – with no user comments and no other recommended videos boxes for a start, which certainly helps to make it far more easily operable from one’s sofa with a tv remote.
However one key issue remains for me and that is pertaining to…