YouTube XL, YouTube for big screens

It is the YouTube of all time, but in version "king size". More correctly, in size XL. The popular site for sharing videos optimizes the size to be seen in high-quality screens, including on television in the room, if we simply turn on the computer or the console to the TV.

YouTube XL - presented yesterday, may be accessed from any browser (provided you have Flash installed) and, according to Reuters, nearly all the content already available on the site is available in XL version, but some restrictions related to copyright.

Graphically, YouTube XL features a reading area of the video much more, without comments, or advertising videos suggested the bar's right to keep more clean page, which also changes its color from white to black.

According to "The Guardian", it refers to the "war" for the living room, with Google - which bought YouTube in 2006 - to penetrate the area of family entertainment par excellence.

"Besides a new design with texts and more simplified navigation, the service offers a continuous play feature, which allows the user to search a subject and click play to view the videos in sequence," said Kuan Yong, product manager for platforms from YouTube. "In January the site introduced a video made especially for people who wanted to access the YouTube videos from their game consoles from Sony PS3 and Nintendo Wii. Now you could say that 'expanded' further this site. As there is a YouTube for mobile devices, the new YouTube XL is optimized to see the videos on large screens, "added the same responsibility.

This ad is precisely at a time when YouTube faces some competition. The Hulu site - a service of video-on-demand offering free streaming and thousands of television series - including hits like 24 and The Simpsons - also just launched its service desktop, expanding the size of the video to the width of your computer screen.

Although the YouTube continue to dominate the universe of users, with 5.5 billion videos available and 89 million "viewers" in the U.S., Hulu (only available for now in USA) is second, with 348 million videos and nine million users. The Hulu is an online partnership of NBC and Fox television studios and only later this year will also be launched in the