YouTube officially coming to Apple TV!

This is good news for all the Apple TV owners. They would no longer be required to hack their Apple TV devices to run YouTube videos on it.

Apple has announced that they would now be bringing support for YouTube video service to Apple TV. Apple would soon be releasing a free software update next month to enable this functionality.

The company said that this new feature would be available as an item in the Apple TV main menu.

Apple TV owners would be able to browse, find and watch free videos from YouTube.

Apple added that they would be making available thousand of videos hosted on YouTube available on Apple TV at the launch of this update.

Also, Google would be adding more and more videos available on Apple TV through YouTube as the time passes by.

The process of making available videos from YouTube on Apple TV would take sometime considering the two companies would be converting all of its content using the Apple supported H.264 video codec.

And starting next month, any new videos uploaded to YouTube would automatically be encoded using H.264.

Apple also said that they would be making available a search feature to let the users hunt for videos hosted on the video sharing service.

The company also launched a build-to-order option for Apple TV. This version of the Apple TV adds a 160GB hard drive if the user so desires.