YouTube can be watched from just about anywhere these days thanks to our cell phone browsers. However, most of us would really rather curl up on the couch to watch videos. With the TubeMote, we can do exactly this—provided our computer’s screen is large enough to make it worthwhile.

TubeMote allows all users to make their own channel for watching YouTube. Watchers then use their cell phones to change the video displaying on their channel. To create your own channel, click the Sign Up link on the top right of the Web site.


Next, choose a username, which will serve as the name of your personal channel. You must also choose a password and provide your email address. Click Sign Up when finished.

You are then given your channel’s URL. Point your computer’s browser to that URL to watch your channel.

Using your cell phone’s browser, navigate to TubeMote.com and sign in with your username and password. Your cell phone instantly becomes a remote control. Search YouTube for the videos you want to watch, then click any video for it to display on your channel (the one on your computer’s browser).

Videos display in full screen mode, which means if a video is of low pixel quality, it will appear blurry.
We tried TubeMote on our 21-inch computer screen in Chrome, IE9 and Firefox—all worked beautifully. For fun, we tried it with our Wii’s Opera browser and were surprised to find it worked there too! So, with a browser-enabled video game system, TubeMote can display continuous, remote-controlled videos on the HDTV of your choice.

After playing with TubeMote for longer than we care to admit, our overall review is very positive. Videos load on our channel the instant we choose them on our cell phone-based remote. Our only complaint iss the ads displayed at the bottom of some videos, but we are unsure if these belong to YouTube