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by Michael Tan, Singapore


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You can sit back to watch YouTube now

Nov 10, 2009 14:51

 

A great man, the one who heads the team which developed the world's first low-cost MPEG-4 decoder with SoC chip, once told me: "There are just two ways to interact with an immobile display screen. You either lean forward or sit back. Chances are when you're leaning forward, you're not in the mood to enjoy a movie."

Well, jump over to Lifehacker for a little look at the brilliant guys at YouTube's new experiment, supersized XL YouTube. Check out YouTube XL here: http://www.youtube.com/xl.

Time to get an HTPC, or cheap Netbook, connect to your TV, get a Vista/Win 7 remote control, and be the biggest YouTube couch potato you can be.

Incidentally, the man's chip is on every IPTV settop box in the world by now.





 

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About Michael Tan

Michael Tan is lucky enough not to have to choose between his job and his passion. He is the responsible for all aspects of developing new businesses and sourcing new productlines for a regional IT distribution company. He also oversees the company's legal affairs as General Counsel. In real life, he is a technology enthusiast, from both the fun and business viewpoint. The only choices he has to make are whether to play with his astro telescopes, his PC games, his Wii console, hit the track, tweak his car, or refine his biofilters, post his blogs, research for a new digicam, scour every forum to feed his habit further, play with his son… You can reach Michael at michaeltanyk@gmail.com ALL BLOGPOSTS ONLY REFLECT MICHAEL'S OPINIONS AND NOBODY ELSES'.

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