Once you add YouTube to your TV, there are a few tricks to make the most of it. These are some of our favorite tricks for watching YouTube on a TV. Note that each TV set and TV remote will vary in terms of buttons and menus, so it’s difficult to give precise instructions that work universally—but you should be able to find these features no matter which TV model you own. When you watch YouTube on a TV, you get a full screen video, without the extras around it (like a description and comments). While watching a video, press select, scroll right to select the gear icon, then choose Captions.