The Kodak Theatre HD Player has the best YouTube on TV. Period.
The primary reason is because Kodak’s YouTube app was redesigned completely for the TV screen, the pointer remote interface and the 10 foot living room experience. This is a fun YouTube to share with a group of people, the videos look surprisingly good considering the source, and the pointer remote makes searching and discovering easier and more useful.
YouTube Top Screen
There are a lot of implementations of YouTube for your TV. They are in other set-top boxes, game consoles and even some upcoming big screen TVs. But none of the them work as well and look as good as Kodak’s. The Theatre version of YouTube is unique because they did the extra work to the get the details right and they have an unfair advantage – the pointer remote. A basic example is the primary playback screen. Here you have over 20 different user options, which would be hard to navigate, or even understand, with a normal up-down, left-right remote control. But here it is like an average display on your PC, only it’s designed for your TV so you can comfortably use it from the couch.
YouTube Brak
Another example is search. YouTube is so monstrously large that search is a vital and frequent function. But typing search terms with traditional remotes is a pain. It’s tediously slow and diverts you so far from enjoying YouTube that you tire of the whole thing too soon. It’s really different with a pointer. Because the Kodak pointer is so precise and steady, it’s easy to type search terms and they included a smart look ahead feature to bring up likely search terms as you enter letters. It helps make the YouTube application a fun activity for a group of people in front of the TV passing around the pointer and sharing YouTube favorites.
YouTube Keyboard
The picture quality of YouTube has been frequently cited as very good considering the home brew sort of content on YouTube. Digital Trends wrote, “Kodak’s Theatre HD Leads in YouTube Quality: Of all the set-top boxes we’ve seen stream YouTube to the TV, Kodak’s seems to do the best job masking the shoddy source quality.” Wired added, “The player even managed to transform YouTube video into something slightly less horrible — no small feat if you’ve ever watched YouTube on a PS3 or Apple TV.”
The best YouTube on TV
The Kodak Theatre HD Player has the best YouTube on TV. Period.
The primary reason is because Kodak’s YouTube app was redesigned completely for the TV screen, the pointer remote interface and the 10 foot living room experience. This is a fun YouTube to share with a group of people, the videos look surprisingly good considering the source, and the pointer remote makes searching and discovering easier and more useful.
YouTube Top Screen
There are a lot of implementations of YouTube for your TV. They are in other set-top boxes, game consoles and even some upcoming big screen TVs. But none of the them work as well and look as good as Kodak’s. The Theatre version of YouTube is unique because they did the extra work to the get the details right and they have an unfair advantage – the pointer remote. A basic example is the primary playback screen. Here you have over 20 different user options, which would be hard to navigate, or even understand, with a normal up-down, left-right remote control. But here it is like an average display on your PC, only it’s designed for your TV so you can comfortably use it from the couch.
YouTube Brak
Another example is search. YouTube is so monstrously large that search is a vital and frequent function. But typing search terms with traditional remotes is a pain. It’s tediously slow and diverts you so far from enjoying YouTube that you tire of the whole thing too soon. It’s really different with a pointer. Because the Kodak pointer is so precise and steady, it’s easy to type search terms and they included a smart look ahead feature to bring up likely search terms as you enter letters. It helps make the YouTube application a fun activity for a group of people in front of the TV passing around the pointer and sharing YouTube favorites.
YouTube Keyboard
The picture quality of YouTube has been frequently cited as very good considering the home brew sort of content on YouTube. Digital Trends wrote, “Kodak’s Theatre HD Leads in YouTube Quality: Of all the set-top boxes we’ve seen stream YouTube to the TV, Kodak’s seems to do the best job masking the shoddy source quality.” Wired added, “The player even managed to transform YouTube video into something slightly less horrible — no small feat if you’ve ever watched YouTube on a PS3 or Apple TV.”