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No Comments Written by Atila on July 1, 2008 – 7:01 am

Neuros‘ work with the open source development community has yielded a YouTube browser for your TV - standard or hi-def - for its Neuros OSD open source media center.

According to the company, (company propaganda follows): “Functionality already in this release includes keyword searching and browsing by category and rating. Future releases will bring user interface improvements and added functionality such as sharing, subscriptions, and much more.”

You can also watch YouTube offline/on your TV with Wii and AppleTV (Note the clever point in the Neuros video, that Jobs’ commencement speech at Stanford, available on YouTube, is not available on AppleTV-YouTube (which only has 10,000 videos optimized for AppleTV of YouTube’s 5.5 million total).

“Everybody wins with open source,” Neuros software chief Michael Gao said in a press release. “Our users benefit because our products are continuously improving and have built-in obsolescence protection; our developers get their efforts recognized and included in official releases; and, of course, we get to provide a really cool product and user experience.”

This is a limited product, obviously, but the release (firmware download from company site here) will give the company feedback on usability and new feature requests.

Here’s a true and useful statement from the company: “The amazing pace of change in Internet media is driven by users”, said Neuros CEO Joe Born. “The only way for a device manufacturer to keep pace is to allow those same users to participate in development.”

Neuros OSD sells for about $225, and is available from Amazon.

Neuros Media Streamer product page coming soon on TVMama.