YouTube Rolls Out Leanback

Today was the release date for Sony’s new line of Internet TV enabled HDTV’s and Leanback is ready for service. YouTube has been beta testing Leanback for several months prior to its introduction on Friday for full access to the entire YouTube community. The couch potato world has just added a new dimension.

Leanback, revealed in May at the Google I/O conference, is a core component of Google’s strategy to bring online video to the living room screen. It provides for a simplified YouTube experience and interface, offering simple keyboard commands, an advanced search interface, and a visual UI for browsing through YouTube clips and shows.

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