Watching YouTube on your PS3 got a whole lot better

by Andrew Yoon { Jan 15th 2009 at 6:00PM }

One of our most-used bookmarks on the PS3 browser has to be popular video sharing site YouTube. It's a great, easy way of watching the most-talked about videos on our big-screen TVs. YouTube has now crafted a special PS3-optimized version of their page which you access by going to youtube.com/tv on your PS3 browser (it won't work on your computer, sorry!). It makes the entire process a lot more streamlined. Check out a YouTube video of YouTube's new PS3 page, after the break (how meta).

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

HardBoiled2009 @ Jan 15th 2009 6:05PM

Cool seems Like A Much Better Way Then Before. Good Job Sony And People At Youtube * Thumbs Up *

[Mxl] Billy @ Jan 15th 2009 6:05PM

Yeah!!!

maroofh @ Jan 15th 2009 6:11PM

how comes he had the playstation logo and that loading circle come up when he started the browser?

Andrew Yoon @ Jan 15th 2009 6:12PM

That's the PS3 home page. If you don't have it set as your home page, press Triangle. You'll see it under the bookmarks.

elephant_stone @ Jan 15th 2009 6:17PM

Thats what I was thinking, Iv never seen that loading page when I start my browser. Must be the SCEA PS3 home page. It looks MILES AND MILES better than the shoddy SCEE home page. ew

michaelsweet311 @ Jan 15th 2009 6:11PM

SIIIIIIICK.

Sooo happy that Youtube finally works properly.

...Now if someone could explain to me what happened to the Fallout Bug Fix patch they said would go live yesterday, I'd be a happy man. A happy Jman.

Popfrogs @ Jan 16th 2009 12:20AM

The patch is ancient, there is no new patch. There was a faulty post on Kotaku and/or Joystiq. The patch is new for the 360 which never got patched.

In short, if your game has patched itself already, that's the end of it.

michaelsweet311 @ Jan 16th 2009 7:18PM

Aww, I was hoping I'd get a bug fix. Everything they wrote in there is still happening...Oh well, I'll just deal. Fallout's still awesome :D

Ott @ Jan 15th 2009 6:13PM

its awesome having google on our side...

El @ Jan 15th 2009 6:20PM

hopefully hulu will fall in line.

HeavyToka @ Jan 15th 2009 6:31PM

I 2nd That

halebound00 @ Jan 15th 2009 7:04PM

3rd! Optimized Hulu FTW!

Stewie @ Jan 15th 2009 7:32PM

4th!

SaMav @ Jan 16th 2009 10:19AM

5th! I love Hulu :)

Jerses @ Jan 15th 2009 6:26PM

now we need megaerotic do the same

slycooper_rocker [patapon defence force] @ Jan 15th 2009 9:15PM

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Game_playa @ Jan 15th 2009 9:51PM

I bet your one of those kids who watches porn on their PS3 cause they'll get caught if they do it on the PC, and their parents don't check the history(On PS3).
Not two but THREE words(Well 2 words and a letter):
GET A LIFE

Popfrogs @ Jan 15th 2009 11:29PM

Game_playa sure does know alot about that scenario.

Peter @ Jan 16th 2009 2:30AM

I have only five words for you, "From my warm, sticky fingers."

Pumapayam @ Jan 15th 2009 6:34PM

fox.com and abc.com too!

PSN: Aggie_CEO @ Jan 15th 2009 6:36PM

It would be nice if this was JUST for the PS3.....but its just YouTube for TV beta.......nothing wrong with it tho as many TVs and devices will make good use of this service......

Ben @ Jan 15th 2009 6:37PM

Now let us add bookmarks that show up on the XMB.

abe @ Jan 15th 2009 6:46PM

where are the coments, no coment page means fail for me.

InFaMoUs1- @ Jan 15th 2009 6:47PM

Now we need HD videos. Seriously the vids on my HDTV look bad.

friko @ Jan 16th 2009 1:15AM

I agree. And fullscreen videos look worst.

rohan @ Jan 15th 2009 6:58PM

did any1 else see Fat Princess under games?

sebastian @ Jan 15th 2009 7:54PM

yea i saw it too. and if u pause it you can resident evil 5 also.

j.howlett @ Jan 15th 2009 8:43PM

nice

PSN: Erdie @ Jan 15th 2009 9:01PM

Looking good!

Mike @ Jan 19th 2009 3:18AM

You tube worked fine before anyway. Oh well, nice to see them make the effort to do this anyway

JaffaBoy @ Jan 16th 2009 5:45AM

Love the way it resizes to fill the tv... BBC's iPlayer doesn't do that!

Let's hope many other sites start yo pick up on this optimised for TV stuff

onesolo @ Jan 16th 2009 5:58AM

"YouTube has now crafted a special PS3-optimized version of their page which you access by going to youtube.com/tv on your PS3 browser (it won't work on your computer, sorry!)"

Of course it works on PC/Mac (or whatever)!!!! Duh!!!
Just use the latest Firefox version, download User Agent Switcher add-on for firefox, http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/ , add a new User Agent for PS3, see this link http://www.useragentstring.com/Playstation%2032.00_id_6492.php , and then voila, there's youtube.com/tv on your computer!!!