How do you play YouTube videos on TV if you don't have an iPad or an Apple TV?
Getting YouTube to play on the TV depends on the hardware you have. If you have a computer, you can connect it to the TV with compatible audio-video cables (just like you would a DVD player) and then switch the display input source on the TV to the computer. You can then select and play the YouTube videos on the computer and watch on the connected TV screen.
The exact cables you need for this depend on what connections are on your TV and computer. If you have fairly new devices, you might be able to link the computer to the TV with an HDMI cable. For older gear, VGA and audio cables can connect the two, as long as your computer's video card can handle it. To see what you need, check the audio and video ports on the back of both the TV and the computer and buy matching cables.
YouTube is so popular that it has turned up on a number of other devices besides the Apple TV. Some TiVo video recorders offer a built-in YouTube channel, as does the Boxee Box and Google TV devices, among many others.
