Google TV currently do not have too many software in the Google Play Store, and most of them are video streaming related. Among those video software, some of them mainly query contents from YouTube and use YouTube Player API from Google to play the videos. The YouTube Player API requires YouTube Player application on the Google TV devices to operate properly.
I have a Logitech Revue, one day after I updated the YouTube Player software on it, a video application I used daily no longer worked, and every time I launched the application, it prompted YouTube Player initialization error. The version of YouTube Player originally bundled with the Revue is version 1.3 but I was able to use that video application after the YouTube Player was updated to version 1.6. It seemed that version 1.6 was the version started supporting YouTube Player API.
After a bit research on the Internet and reading of reviews on the YouTube Player application on the Google Player Store, it appeared that the YouTube Player 1.7 does not work with YouTube Player API. In addition, from the complains by users, apparently version 1.7 broke plenty of good features in version 1.6.
On the Revue, I was not able to restore YouTube Player to version 1.6 because when I removed the update, the version was reverted back to the factory bundled version 1.3, therefore, I can only wait until Google fixes the problem in the YouTube Player.
But if your Google TV device is the first batch of the Asus Cube, if you have the similar YouTube Player initialization error in the application you use, you can indeed remove the update on YouTube Player to restore version 1.6 because it is the version bundled in Asus Cube.
