Just read this news @ C|net:

Apple TV set to download YouTube
Next month, Apple TV owners will have the option of watching all that user-generated video has to offer on their big-screen TVs.
By Tom Krazit
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: May 30, 2007, 4:40 PM PDT


Thousands of hours of user-generated video madness will soon be available through Apple TV, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Wednesday.

Jobs revealed the partnership with YouTube during his talk at the D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, Calif. Starting next month, Apple TV users will be able to select "YouTube" as an option from the device's main menu and view thousands of the most viewed and most popular videos on the site.
Photo: YouTube coming to Apple TV

Apple TV is designed to connect a wide-screen television with content purchased or downloaded over the Internet by a Mac or PC. Until now, however, Apple TV users looking for content were mostly dependent on television programs or movies they had purchased through the iTunes Store. There's no browser inside the interface that would let users access other Internet videos, though they could move their home videos to Apple TV.

Now, Apple has designed a hook into YouTube that will let Apple TV owners access the most popular videos that have been converted into the h.264 standard, said David Moody, vice president for Mac hardware marketing at Apple. The full catalog of YouTube videos will be available later in the year, as YouTube converts the rest, Moody said.

Apple also announced that it will make a higher-capacity version of Apple TV available Thursday. The current Apple TV product costs $299 with a 40GB hard drive, but a version with a 160GB hard drive will now cost $399.

Carl Sheerman:

Pedro,

         Thanks for that info on the Apple TV.  Bit cheesed of though as i only bought the 40 gig version a few weeks ago.  Hopefully they will stream it so i can download and watch it on the hoof.  Hopefully it will be able to be stored on my itunes.  I gather an update will be on the way for the Apple TV.  Thanks again.

B & O Nutter

Nutter,

Don't forget to update your iTunes and Quicktime, since a new version has been released.

HTH.
 

Gatex:

This youtube plug-in is so useless. Have fun watching 200x150 pixel video on your hd-television with the poorest audio quality !

Some of the YouTube videos are already converted to the h.264 standard the others will be converted soon.

One novelty is the HDD upgrade that may convince some users to buy it now, the YouTube stuff is just a partnership and doesn't count, at least for me, to buy or not the product.

As soon as the product hits the stores, many articles analyzing it would be available and then we all can see if there are only two new things or more.

Another thing / question, perhaps if you have BeoSystem 3 and the Apple TV connected to it you'd probably have a better picture due to the upscaling feature.

Can anyone confirm this ?