YouTube is quickly becoming the next Doom. Whereas a consumer device (cellphone, PDA, internet appliance) was once judged as truly geek-worthy when someone hacked it to play Doom, now you know your device has arrived when someone hacks a way to play YouTube videos on it.



A Series of Tubes is the latest in a long line of AppleTV hacks for those not afraid of voiding their warranties. You'll need to install Perian on your AppleTV, and you'll have to load the program using Patchstick or ATVLoader. In other words, this hack is not for beginners.

So far, the plugin lets you download and view YouTube videos. A future release will let you stream them from the web.