It is rumored that Google is talking to DTH providers in India to have Youtube on your idot box.  This is the story on Economic Times

What puzzles me is that how can Youtube be accessed from TV in the current framework of hardware and remote capability. The existing remotes do not facilitate textual search, nor does the current hardware supports 2-way server client communication as it is only a dumb broadcasting framework,

At best, what YouTube can do is that collate Trending videos of the day and have the users choose them and play. That is not interesting and so un-youtube..

Also, if somehow Youtube is able to crack it technically and evolve the DTH architecture, will the existing content providers ( channels) like Youtube and DTH shaking hands.  Afterall, once you have Youtube on your set-top box, all you need is Youtube and no channel subscription because of the crowdsourced ( aka pirated) videos.