Hewlett-Packard Co. announced yesterday that its new MediaSmart TVs will give users an easy link to YouTube.

HP worked with YouTube to make it possible for people to watch and share full-screen videos on their HDTVs and to create multiple playlists from anywhere they watch TV: Viewers simply log into their YouTube accounts with an easy-to-use remote control and start watching videos on their HP MediaSmart products…

The MediaSmart platform is the touchstone of HP’s connected entertainment products. All MediaSmart products aggregate digital media from multiple networked home PCs into one easy-to-view menu for HDTV playback using a remote control.

I have never played with one of HP’s MediaSmart TVs, but it looks like they make it pretty easy to use your TV to look at any video, photo or song you have on your computer.

I’d guess that HP will extend that with more deals like this one with YouTube — deals that let you bring video from the net to your TV without pulling it onto your computer first.

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