How does apple expect me to enjoy youtube on apple tv without a keyboard

entertaining with atv is great, people are so impressed with being able to watch trailers, movies, tv and the like on apple tv... youtube is a huge favourite, everyone knows a youtube video they want their friends to see, but it's SO annoying having to click around the alphabet with the apple remote, even slower with the universal remote i use.
it's really quite a buzz kill while ten people filled with wine wait for you to scroll around and select each letter while trying to type "pablo francisco ecstacy"... why is there not (or is there) a keyboard option to speed this process up and increase the entertainment of my guest ten fold
thank you

I have thought about this before myself, before finding out the remote app works as a keyboard. Since then I have been set because I already had an iPod touch at the time (now I have an iPhone)... this i agree is not so helpful for those who do not have one of the two...
Before I thought, Apple TV needs a bluetooth adapter built-in or atleast they need to open up the usb port for a bluetooth adapter so we can use bluetooth keyboards with the search interfaces... well, later on I found out sometimes, 802.11 and bluetooth can step on each other, at least, for this one warehouse computer manufacturer it can (I won't mention who), so maybe Apple was avoiding that CF.
A line of sight / infrared keyboard could work, but would it be cheap enough? Probably in the price range of a "remote commander" all-in-one type deal which would come out close to the price of an iPod touch or iPhone, both of which have way more features than a keyboard
A Wired keyboard... no. NO FREAKIN WAY MAN!!! No. At least, not for me. My dog might eat it.
So maybe an 802.11 keyboard would work, but it too would be expensive as a stand alone device, which is why it probably made sense to build ATV keyboard functionality into a device that already costs alot of money , but also offers justifiable features on its own, the iPod touch and the iPhone.
Sure it would be nice if they offered a cheaper alternative, and I would bet that a compact infrared keyboard would be the easiest to implement. Bluetooth could be a possibility, as long as the hardware could come together and the interference potential could be kept to a minimum. But if you're going to spend nearly that much money on a keyboard for Apple TV, the iPod touch at least offers other features and is open to future enhancements through software upgrades...
I mean, who knows whats coming down the pipe...
maybe games / apps that can run on the ATV? It would be cool if the iPod touch / iPhone could become a game controller interface for games on the ATV...
maybe its something else coming down that pipe... (sure hope not!)
If you want to bug apple about what bugs you, use this link religously:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html
I do, and they probably don't listen, but at least I dropped a pebble in the bucket.
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