youtube leanback - youtube TV

jam_zhou · 2012-10-19, 01:40 PM

Hey guys,

if you've been using youtube xl you might have noticed that it's changed. For me it's changed to the point where it was broken. After I sign in the whole interface is changed and broken. Anyway so I started looking into Youtube Leanback which has now changed to Youtube TV and I have to say it looks pretty snazzy. It's a whole 10 ft interface using your remote control. For the bling factor it looks good, but I find it not as simple and easy to use as XL. Anyway, thought I'd let people know as it's a decent improvement in many ways.

I think the "coolest" thing is that it can be controlled by your smartphone as well since it can do internet pairing. So you can queue it through smartphone and send it to your TV. I don't have a smartphone so someone else can figure that part out.

stustunz · 2012-10-19, 09:55 PM

They have wrecked it fuckin google are useless
You can't use a keyboard to enter a search how frickin dumb

whurlston · 2012-10-20, 02:18 AM

I get nothing but a black page with a youtube logo.

stustunz · 2012-10-20, 03:34 AM

I got that also in Ie
loaded firefox imported books marks still got black screen with youtube in middle
then cleared cache or history signed in put in the code etc and it worked

you cant use keyboard to enter text
but the intuitive text input works pretty well (still not happy with no keyboard input though)

jam_zhou · 2012-10-22, 01:43 AM

yes you can use the keyboard! Just move over to the letters under the text field then move up. You should then be able to use the keyboard.

stustunz · 2012-10-22, 03:38 AM

Well on mine the letters DO NOT work, only the arrows

jam_zhou · 2012-11-01, 02:58 AM

whurlston Wrote:I get nothing but a black page with a youtube logo.

you need to update your browser.

whurlston · 2012-11-01, 03:48 AM

jam_zhou Wrote:you need to update your browser.

To what version? I tested with IE9 on Win7 and IE10 on Win8. If it doesn't work in IE, I'm not interested.

stustunz · 2012-11-01, 04:12 AM

Im sure i had it going on ie10 the other day but not now it only works on firefox

jam_zhou · 2012-11-01, 04:02 PM

I got it working in Win XP FF 16 (newest update as of yesterday) and on a Win 7 X64 Chrome setup. I also tried it on IE and that didn't work either.

The reason I found this out yesterday was that I tried moving over from youtubeXL to youtubeTV and I only got a black screen with a youtube logo on it. I upgraded firefox and it all worked.

I think they are heavily revamping youtubTV everyday.

Oh yeah...now I can't use keyboard inputs either. I was pretty sure that I was able to before.

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