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MacWorld UK: The long-awaited update for the Apple TV arrived yesterday, providing Apple’s television box with YouTube functionality built in.

Installing YouTube on the Apple TV couldn’t be easier. Simply click on the ‘Update’ option and wait for the download. It took roughly five minutes to download the update, and another couple of minutes for the Apple TV to restart.

Do this and you’ll find a new option marked ‘YouTube’ on the Apple TV menu. Click on it and you’ll be gazing over the following options: ‘Featured’, ‘Most Viewed’, ‘Most Recent’, ‘Top Rated’, ‘History’, ‘Search’ and ‘Log In’.

YouTube is an amazing addition to the Apple TV, one that changes the nature of the device completely. You certainly can’t complain about a lack of content for the device now – and it’s ability to sync up to your online account brings the community element of YouTube and all its video where it belongs, in your living room. We expect to update our review and rating of the Apple TV after we have had a more thorough test of the device.

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Tech Digest: Archos has unveiled its new line of personal media players, dubbed Generation 5. It includes three new PMPs, the 405, 605 and 705, which for the first time will support Flash-based video from YouTube and other online video-sharing sites.

The three PMPs also have built-in Wi-Fi, to attract people keen to stream media around their homes, including films and music from their PCs, as well as surfing the Web.

The new players will also be able to connect to TVs using Archos’ DVR Station accessory, meaning users will be able to watch downloaded movies on their big screen.

Full details.

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TG Daily: Internet analysis firm Comscore today said that Google has become the leading online video property with 1.2 billion video streams and 57.4 million unique people streaming videos in March.

The firm said that YouTube drove Google’s market share to 16.7%, reaching 53.5 million unique streamers and delivering 1.1 billion streams alone.

Yahoo came in second with 434 million streams, followed by Fox Interactive Media, which owns Myspace, with 421 million, Viacom with 260 million, Time Warner with 222 million and Microsoft with 151 million.

According to Comscore, 71.4% of U.S. Internet users streamed videos in March, with three out of ten users streaming from YouTube. Online viewers watched an average of 145 minutes of online video during the month; in total, more than 7 billion video streams were initiated by more than 126 million people in America alone, the research firm said.

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MarketWatch: EMI Music Chairman Alain Levy recently told an audience at the London Business School that the CD is dead, saying music companies will no longer be able to sell CDs without offering “value-added” material.