Numa Numa on Widescreen

On May 30 Apple announced that they will be adding YouTube support to the Apple TV via a free software update.

What does this mean for you? If you own an Apple TV you can wirelessly stream YouTube videos directly from the site to your widescreen television by using your Apple TV. You can also surf YouTube's site through the Apple TV interface (no more huddling around a computer screen to watch Lonely Girl).

This new feature will be available in mid-June with the most current and popular YouTube videos, and by fall all the videos on the site will be viewable with the Apple TV.

Also, the videos won't be Flash, they'll be re-encoded in Apple's preferred format, H.264. What does this move mean for Apple and YouTube?

• Weigh in on the new feature: Good, bad, or indifferent?

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Built to Order Apple TV

The new larger hard drive offers four times the storage for up to 200 hours of video, 36,000 songs, 25,000 photos or a combination of each.

They also announced a new Apple TV for $399 that has a 160gig hard drive.

• Read the press release in full.