HD YouTube Videos

[NYR99]

I tried searching this forum as well as Google but to no avail...

Does TV stream HD YouTube videos? I recently upgraded to a TiVo Premier HD (awesome DVR!) But, unfortunately, it does not stream HD YouTube videos. It makes YouTube look like crap on my 46". I am thinking of picking up an TV just for this purpose.

Thanks for any help.

 

[benhollberg]

I just went to check this out on my Apple TV because I don't really use YouTube on it that much. So I went to an 1080p video and ran that. It looked really good and looked HD. Then I have that same video in 1080p on my computer and streamed that to the Apple TV, while that looked better it wasn't by too much.

So I don't necessarily say that the YouTube video was HD, it looked good enough for sure and I don't think you would be disappointed.

 

[viperGTS]

I just went to check this out on my Apple TV because I don't really use YouTube on it that much. So I went to an 1080p video and ran that. It looked really good and looked HD. Then I have that same video in 1080p on my computer and streamed that to the Apple TV, while that looked better it wasn't by too much.

So I don't necessarily say that the YouTube video was HD, it looked good enough for sure and I don't think you would be disappointed.

The A4 can only stream up to 720p i believe, which is in the aTV.

 

[benhollberg]

The A4 can only stream up to 720p i believe, which is in the aTV.

Yes that is true, the Apple TV will only put out 720p video. But the video I tried on YouTube is available in 1080p, even though it probably didn't use that. I have much experience and can confirm that if you send the Apple TV 1080p video it will play, I assume it downgrades it though.

 

[NYR99]

Thanks for the info guys. I will probably pick one up tomorrow. I'm just really pissed the TiVo won't stream HD YouTube....oh well...