If you like to watch YouTube on your television then a new version of the popular video sharing site YouTube XL is bound to be just what you’ve been waiting for. As you can imagine, the new XL site is extra large and has a new television-friendly interface to make browsing videos on your television a snap.

Mashable got an on-site demo of the service last week and was pretty impressed with the new interface. YouTube XL is essentially the same YouTube you’ve come to know and love, just with a new and different skin.Menu’s for the XL version of the site look more like a traditional DVD menu than YouTube’s website, and are very easy to navigate through.

Videos on the XL version are able to be expanded to full screen while still looking good, Mashable even went as far as to say that the quality of some of the HD video “stands up to its cable and satellite counterparts.” What you lose are some of the additional things like commenting and other community features you’ve come to expect to be commonplace with YouTube videos.

The site is controlled by an application for Google Android phones, although another version for iPhone and other smartphones may be on the way soon. YouTube XL support is being built into several television, and support is also expected to come soon for the PS3 and Wii.

The idea of watching YouTube on television is a relatively new one, although it’s catching on pretty quickly. For me personally, I don’t know that I would really want to watch that many videos on my regular television. YouTube videos are typically pretty short in nature, and I tend to want to watch long-winded entertainment (for lack of a better term, when sitting in front of my television.

What do you think about YouTube XL? Would you use it?

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