New TVs and devices from Sony, LG, Panasonic and Bang & Olufsen are the first from beyond the Googlesphere to feature YouTube’s “send to TV” feature, which essentially turns your Android phone or tablet into a YouTube remote for your big-screen.Thursday’s announcement answers a question we’ve had since November, when Google announced a cool update to its YouTube mobile apps. The update allows users to push videos on their Android phone or tablet onto Google TV-equipped TVs. Google promised that the feature, which works a bit like Apple’s Air Play, would roll out to other devices.
Sony, LG, Panasonic and B&O got the nod, and their YouTube-friendly devices will be unveiled next week at the Consumer Electronics Show, Google said in a blog post. There’s no word yet on whether or not this functionality will arrive retroactively to older non-Google-TV TVs from these companies, but we should get clarification on that in Vegas.
Later this year, we’ll see Google give the YouTube love to products from Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Toshiba, Vizio, Western Digital and others. Of course, we also expect to see plenty of new Google TV products at CES, particularly TVs and set-top boxes that utilize Google TV’s new voice search feature, as well as improved suggestions on what to watch across free and paid TV, apps and streaming services. Stay tuned.
via: wired
