{"id":340937,"date":"2025-12-12T18:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/340937\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:11:07","slug":"youtube-made-its-video-player-easier-to-navigate-on-tvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/340937\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube made its video player easier to navigate on TVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The YouTube watch screen has been given a new look on TVs. The redesign aims to provide a \u201cmore intuitive experience with easier navigation,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/thread\/394085818?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube\u2019s announcement<\/a>, relocating the video title and several controls, and adding a new \u201cDescription\u201d button to access creator information and other video features.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">I\u2019m already seeing the update on my own Nvidia Shield Pro streaming box and native Phillips TV OS, and I do think it makes it easier to find specific video features and controls. My colleague Thomas Ricker says he isn\u2019t seeing the redesign in Apple TV\u2019s YouTube player, however, so they may still be rolling out. These changes are pretty delayed, considering <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.youtube\/news-and-events\/happy-birthday-youtube-20\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube announced in April<\/a> that they would arrive \u201cthis summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Videos on the YouTube app for TV will now show the title in the top left corner of the screen instead of just above the video scrubber at the bottom of the page, and the title can no longer be clicked to open comments, metadata, and information about the creator. Instead, those controls are now available by clicking the new \u201cDescription\u201d button. The channel thumbnail and subscribe function have also been separated into two buttons, with the creator\u2019s thumbnail now taking users directly to their channel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Controls have been reorganized into distinct groups under the video scrubber: Channel, Description, and Subscribe on the left, Previous, Pause\/Play, and Next in the center, and Like, Dislike, Comment, Save, Closed Captions, and Settings placed into two groups on the right. YouTube says the Subscribe button will remain visible to subscribers, adapting to flag pay-gated content or alert users to new livestreams. A \u201cMultiview\u201d control has also been added for live sports content, while Music and Premium subscribers will see a new \u201cDisplay Mode\u201d control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The YouTube watch screen has been given a new look on TVs. The redesign aims to provide a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,75,44,5131,61,4718],"class_list":["post-340937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-streaming","tag-technology","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}