YouTube has become the most used video platform in the world, despite Facebook's efforts to popularize its video platform, the need to have an account on the social network, not everyone wants to go through the hoop , does not allow you to compete on equal terms with the search giant. In addition, the type of content that we can find YouTube, videos of any subject and category, we can hardly find it in the social network par excellence. Many are the users who they visit YouTube daily from their Mac to see the latest videos of their favorite YouTubers, device reviews ...
If we do not have an Apple TV at home and our Mac is in the same room, although it is not necessary, as the TV, we can use the TV for YouTube application to enjoy the videos from the Google platform on the screen large of our home, as long as our television has an internet connection or one of the devices connected to it has this type of connection. TV for YouTube allows us to show the videos we want on the following devices:
- Western Digital Media Players (WD TV Live, WD TV Live Plus, WD TV Live Hub)
- Samsung SmartTV's
- Sony Bravia SmartTVs
- Panasonic Viera TVs
- Philips Smart TVs
- Toshiba Smart TVs
- Sharp TV's
- LG Connected TVs
- Xbox 360
- Xbox One
- XBMC
- Chromecast.
As we can see in the list, televisions require an internet connection, those with the surname Smart, or devices, such as Microsoft consoles in addition to Google's Chromecast. Obviously if we have an Apple TV, this application will not be necessary. The first Smart TV models offer us a rather painful control of the internet options that they offer us, although they integrate YouTube among their applications, which forces users to depend on third-party applications such as this case. TV for YouTube has a regular price in the Mac App Store of 3,99 euros, but for a limited time we can download it for free.