14w ago - Sony Marketing Manager Peter Sherman has announced that the new YouTube application hits PlayStation 3 today!

To quote: Giving button mashing a whole new meaning, the new YouTube app for PlayStation 3 rolls out today across 19 countries including most of Europe, Australia, New Zealand and more. You'll find the new app in My Channels under TV & Video Services on the home screen.

You might have watched YouTube on PS3 before, but get ready for a completely new experience that's designed for the big screen and PS3 controls. The new app brings you more content, like your subscribed channels, and more ways to find videos, with better search tools, more ways to watch YouTube by pairing your smartphone, and more language options.

Here's what you'll find:

Search: Finding the videos you want is easier than ever, with search suggestions and instant video results while you type.

Your subscribed channels: Sign in to find the latest videos from your YouTube subscriptions, whether it be official music videos or the PlayStation channel.

Your phone as a remote: With a quick pairing process, you can control YouTube on PS3 with a smartphone. Find a video on your phone and with a simple button press it'll...

21w ago - Following up on his previous release, this weekend PlayStation 3 developer facanferff has updated the YouTube Plugin to version 2.0 for Showtime PS3 Media Player dubbed the New Experience with the changes outlined below.

Download: YouTube v2.0 Plugin for Showtime PS3 Media Player / GIT

Below are the changes, as follows:

The first major release of the plugin was more than a year ago and now it is time to renew that experience and provide a improved experience that I hope everyone will enjoy. Please see carefully the changelog so you know exactly what's new:

• Add: Support for Continuous Playback (needs to activate setting in Showtime's Video Playback Settings)
  
• Add: Main Page now supports order customization (like Showtime Main Page)
  
• Add: Youtube Disco
  
• Add: Native Sorting (by Publish Date, by Views, by Title (incrementing/decrementing) and as Default)

40w ago - Today Sony's YouTube Product Manager Sarah Ali has announced that the YouTube application officially lands on the PlayStation 3 console!

Download: YouTube PS3 .PKG for 3.55 CFW by SakaiYuuji / YouTube PS3 .PKG for Rebug v4.21.2 by SeanP2500 / UP2075-NPUP10028_00-YOUTUBE000000001.pkg / YOUTUBE105_FIX_341355_VSPROD.pkg by VSPROD

From VSPROD: It seems that the YouTube APP won't appear at all on the XMB when you are in 3.55 (4.10 APP) So I have created a PKG from the official Sony YouTube APP.. and an other PKG: the Fix 3.55. should work for 3.41 too.

1. Install my first PKG:UP2075-NPUP10028_00-YOUTUBE000000001
2. Install my 3.55 Fix: YOUTUBE105_FIX_341355_VSPROD

Now after the installation, launch multiman and you have to go into Dev_hdd0/game/NPUP10028/ and create a new folder called: PS3_GAME.

Now you will have to copy everything that in the NPUP10028 folder into PS3_GAME folder. After that go to PS3_GAME/USRDIR and click on EBOOT.BIN and create a desktop shortcut (with the circle button...

49w ago - Following up on his previous release, this weekend PlayStation 3 developer facanferff has updated the YouTube Plugin to version 1.5 for Showtime PS3 Media Player which fixes 720p / 1080p playback and more as outlined below!

Download: YouTube v1.5 Plugin for Showtime PS3 Media Player / GIT

Below are the changes, as follows:

• Add: Support for OAuth2 instead of ClientLogin (see Note 1)
  
• Add: Videos not available in user country are displayed in Orange
  
• Add: Videos that are available in HD (720p and up) are identified like that in video listing
  
• Add: Setting to list only videos that are HD
  
• Add: Filter videos by duration (see Note 2)
  
• Add: Show nickname of author of a video in video listing
  
• Add: Show Likes percentage in video listing
  
• Add: YouTube Transcribed Captions
  
• Add: YouTube Automatic Speech Captions
  
• Fix: Videos in HD/Full HD would give an error stating "CPU is too slow"
  
• Fix: The plugin would try to get empty subtitles from Universal...

54w ago - Following up on his previous release, today PlayStation 3 developer facanferff has updated the YouTube Plugin to version 1.4 for Showtime PS3 Media Player.

Download: YouTube v1.4 Plugin for Showtime PS3 Media Player / GIT

Below are the changes, to quote:

• Add: Show Feeds
  
• Add: Sort feeds (published, relevance, views, rating, position, comments, duration and title)
  
• Add: Filter Channel Feeds by Type
  
• Add: Filter Show Feeds by Genre
  
• Add: Filter Show Feeds by Region
  
• Add: Filter Movie Feeds by Genre
  
• Add: Filter Movie Feeds by Region
  
• Add: Filter Standard Feeds by Hungary region
  
• Add: Live Feeds
  
• Add: Background support (can be enabled via Settings page)
  
• Add: Set minimum resolution to play
  
• Add: Filter Movie Feeds by Language
  
• Enhancement: Only show free content in Movie Feeds
  
• Enhancement: If it is not possible to get the original video link(s), try to get an error message
  
• Enhancement: Use API version 2.1,...