Real YouTube-watching advice:
If you like watching YouTube on your TV, fantastic. I do, too! But did you know you can use the YouTube app on your phone to pick videos rather than faff with the TV's interface?
Turn on your TV, open YT however you do it, then cast from the app to the TV!
If you like watching YouTube on your TV, fantastic. I do, too! But did you know you can use the YouTube app on your phone to pick videos rather than faff with the TV's interface?
Turn on your TV, open YT however you do it, then cast from the app to the TV!
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I am disappointed I can’t do this with other apps because the phone interface is so much better than TV interface. I want to cast Netflix and other streaming services too!
NOT available on Google play
Once it connects, it's great. Other times I add what I want to watch later then open it on my TV.
Sometimes after an update you will have to adjust the settings again.
For Chrome-based browsers: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youtube-for-tv/gmmbpchnelmlmndfnckechknbohhjpge
For Firefox-based browsers: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/youtube-for-tv/
Then you can browse to https://youtube.com/tv and use any PC in this exact same way.
If I hadn't gone all in on the dumb-tv only plus laptop solution for getting YouTube on the living room TV, then I'd absolutely be doing the same
Much easier for her to see and operate, since she refuses to let me get her a newer TV.
But I use it all the time for Peleton from the app
That said, I did move to @brave.com for showing YT at school to get around potentially problematic ads.
I'd do the same thing with Moonlight, but my LG TV can't handle the bandwidth I want to push with it.
Time for cafezinho da tarde mlk
* YouTube for Ios devices is crap.
* YouTube for Android devices is also crap.
* YouTube on a TV? Ha ha. Not a chance in heck I'd ever try that. Maximum suckitude. 🤢
All its features are worse than in the desktop web, using its remote control is horribly slow and annoying, reading comments is a pain, playlist management is utter crap and so on.
I want the full complexity of every feature and a rapid way to control it, so to me the simplicity is a curse. 🙂
(It's the same as with game controllers, they all suck. 🙂)
when an ad comes on, slide the scrubber on the lock screen to 1 second before the end of the ad, and it just skips it
That’s the only thing I want from them.
Surprise! They reneged and shoved extremely slow adware on there. Wish I'd never let it hit the internet...
Always assumed firesticks and youtube were minimally functional...
i just plugged a computer into my tv
You can install "Smart Tube" on most devices and get access to many "quality of life" features usually exclusive to a PC Browser Plug in.
Also, you can dim any video to near-black if you are a "pass out with the TV on" person.
LG's smart stuff is pretty good though, if you go for the OLED models.
You don’t even have to jailbreak it, Android allows sideloading natively.
We have YT Premium so I'm not sure if that changes things 🤷🏼♀️
[And -yes- that's us messing up @techconnectify.bsky.social metrics by watching on an 8 year console and a 13 year old "smart tv"]
I think it's a much, much nicer experience, it makes features like the subscriptions tab much easier to use, and if you're a monster like me who likes to read YT comments, you can read them on your phone screen while your TV plays the video!
Ew, no
But it does let me read comments while watching the video without pausing.
Only caveat is if the video ends while you're reading comments, it goes to the recommended next video screen instead of staying on the comments.
*this may be limited to YT Premium now, honestly not sure.
I tell him I just queue whatever interests me on the recommendations tab.
Where did we go wrong?
I think the point of it is to harmonize how queueing works when watching on the on the app itself (this is relatively new) with how it works when casting.
I do wish it allowed you to rearrange your queue though
Maybe they're testing it. One can hope.
Anyway, that's all!
Convoluted? Pshaw!
So you can have a relatively decent music service and skip ads on YouTube without the add'l fee to Spotify and the like.
Pretty good deal, I think.
Much tighter control over what it does that way.
I watch YouTube from a simple browser and just queue up what to watch ahead of time.
It's been working out for years.
A "Play on device being casted to or on this device?" prompt / letting the playlist continue with the app closed would fix it nicely but, y'know, GOOGLE.
Casting content is surprisingly uncommon, despite YouTube constantly reminding when using the app while a TV is nearby.
People in general always use defaults, like the TV remote.
Also, I'm salty because my fav streamer is leaving YT for Twitch so I won't be able to watch them on my TV