Facebook New Mobile Video Player : A TV channel on its own?

Can Facebook become the next popular TV channel?

Great news for those of you out there wanting to upload short videos but dread going through all the long detailed process YouTube puts you through! Or if you love watching videos through your mobile devices but find it such a nuisance opening new video players each time you want to load a video.
Facebook has now come out with a new mobile video player offering features such as auto playing of videos in the feed, and tapping on one enlarges it to full screen.
Facebook confirmed the existence of the updated mobile player, saying “this is a new feature we are testing on mobile to help people find more videos they might be interested in.
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/07/facebook-mobile-video/

If you watch one of a friend’s videos, Facebook will now try to get you to watch more with a new carousel of suggested videos that appears after you view one in the mobile News Feed.
It lets you quickly watch a series of videos before jumping back to the feed. All in a breeze.

This could be a great way for Facebook to break into smart TVs.
It also seems like a strategy by Facebook to encourage users to switch from the usual video consumption sites such as YouTube and Vine to spend more time on Facebook.

So, what say you?