Chapter 13
Chromebook Video
In This Chapter
Exploring video on Chromebook
Watching movies on Google Play
Exploring YouTube
Watching video used to be relegated to televisions and video playback devices like VHS players, DVD, and Blu-ray. However, thanks to the prevalence of high-speed Internet access, increasingly powerful computers, and wireless broadband, the Internet has become a primary delivery mechanism for video.
You can’t argue that streaming video has become one of the major consumers of Internet bandwidth in the 21st century. As of the end of 2013, streaming video accounted for nearly 53 percent of all Internet traffic. Recent statistics show that more than 1 billion unique users visit YouTube each month. Over 6 billion hours of video are watched each month, and nearly 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Nielsen recently reported that YouTube reaches more U.S. adults ages 18 to 34 than any cable network.
In this chapter, you learn how to play videos on your Chromebook with the internal video player and how to browse for and stream videos through Google Play Video. Lastly, you learn how to navigate Google’s YouTube network and how to create, edit, and ...
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