If you enjoy watching informative or downright entertaining videos on
your way to work or school, you likely have the YouTube app for iOS
installed in a prominent place on your home screen. However, the YouTube
videos you so enjoy on your small device may soon make it on the big
screen as a “Send to TV” feature has been implemented in the last update
of YouTube for iOS, following suit after an update for the Android app
earlier this year was released, which made the same much-needed
improvement.
For those who might not remember, YouTube and Netflix worked together
on a new standard, which it unveiled last month, allowing mobile apps
to quickly “beam” content over to a TV or set-top box, and even your
Xbox or PlayStation 3. While the standard allows all developers to make
it much easier to enable connectivity between an A device (such as a
smartphone) and a B device (such as a set-top box), not major
third-party apps have implemented this as of yet.
YouTube has implemented this new standard very seamlessly: a new
“Sent to TV” button has been added to the video view on every video
capable of being played on a large screen TV. From there, your TV,
set-top box or console will be discovered and the content will
automatically show up; after this step, your mobile device will function
as a remote, with all of the controls that you would normally use to
play, pause or scrub through the video still available on the device,
and with immediate effect on what’s played on your TV.
The official YouTube app for iOS has certainly come a long way since
it was introduced last year. Replacing the built-in iOS YouTube app,
which was removed with the release of iOS 6 late last year, the new
YouTube app features a new layout and more immersive video features.
More interaction with TVs set-top boxes and consoles are just what is
needed to solve the problem of connectivity between big-screen TVs and
smaller Internet-connected devices.
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| Similarl to the previous versions, YouTube for iOS is available free of charge from the iOS App Store. |
(Source: YouTube for iOS on the App Store)
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