Below: A 16×9 video, filling the whole widescreen. Whether this is YouTube’s fault, its users’ fault, or Apple TV’s fault is unclear, but the end result’s the same: videos could surely look better.Ībove: A 16×9 video, displaying on only part of the widescreen TV. We also saw some videos where sync problems made the screen go black for a few seconds before resuming. In fact, it’s exceedingly rare that a clip actually uses as much of the TV as it could or should. Some obviously non-widescreen content doesn’t fill the screen vertically. Some obviously widescreen clips display with black bars on all four sides. We say “fine” rather than “good” or “great” because we’ve mostly been able to view videos from start to finish, but the clips aren’t even close to universal in properly using a widescreen display. Below: A 16×9 video, squeezed improperly to 4×3. When videos are selected, Apple TV generally does a fine job of displaying them.Ībove: A 4×3 video, properly formatted for Apple TV. Moving through YouTube’s four standard video categories-Featured, Most Viewed, Most Recent, and Top Rated-is easy in an Apple TV interface-consistent way, and similar to the categorization found on the main page of the YouTube site.
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The basics of Apple TV’s YouTube interface are discussed in our Complete Guide to Apple TV 1.1 Software and YouTube, and from a technical standpoint, Apple’s new feature works basically as expected.