Ive been waiting for this for a while.

There have long been rumblings of YouTube in HD coupled with all sorts of workarounds to get your content uploaded in higher quality. Now YouTube HD has launched for real. There's some debate as to whether or not the content really meets the minimum 720p/1080i HD standard, and you can read more about that whole controversy here if that's your sort of thing, but there's no doubt that YouTube "HD" content looks better than the old stuff (and it technically registers as 720P H.264 in their flash player)

just a note, make sure you click the above thing and open it in youtube, thats not the HD version, you need to click HD link below the movie on youtube site

very impressive!

About time.

The poor quality of you-tube was a major negative for me so I hardly ever bothered searching for stuff just to watch a pixelated mess.

The North Wind Blew South from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

i wonder how much more d/l this will mean/

SD version, 12 meg, HD version, 85 meg (according to safari activity window), 5 min clip. That means if you watch 20 minutes of youtube a day, then 340 meg a day, or 10 gig a month, just for 20 mins youtube a day. Hopefully SD is set as the default on uploading.

Even more ways for Telstra bigpond users to get smashed with extra usage fees.

The poor quality of you-tube was a major negative for me so I hardly ever bothered searching for stuff just to watch a pixelated mess.

There was no problem with youtube's quality, the problem was that the instructions for youtube told you to provide a much lower res file than was actually optimal for converting to the youtube flv.

People used to be amazed by the quality of my videos just because I knew what I was doing.

gotta admit, thermite porn was pretty damn sweet

YT will probably turn into a HD trailer portal.

Much needed improvement though.

the new HD and widescreen is probably for the movies they are going to start hosting.

Even more ways for Telstra bigpond users to get smashed with extra usage fees.

Conversely, in the USA, ISPs want Google to pay more because their users are using Google services heaps, to the point where Google - in the interests of protecting net neutrality - are making software to help users find out if their ISPs are f***ing with them.

Arguably, that situation has arisen because ISPs in the US have all been advertising "unlimited" plans (something that Australian consumers shot down years ago but the retarded US is still playing catchup on). Several big US ISPs have been considering Australian-like quotas (though usually at different volumes) for a while, and I think some have implemented them. I think more and more will do it.

Doing that is certainly 10000% less f***ing /stupid/ than trying to say Google should pay their bandwidth bills.

making software

lol @ the comments on that article. Hopefully those guys chose not to vote in the last US election.

i wonder when google will become an isp.

To be honest, I reckon Youtube as it was, was better..
basically because it would download the content quicker. as long as I could watch it. If I wanted it in a Higher res, I'd download it from somewhere else.

basically because it would download the content quicker. as long as I could watch it. If I wanted it in a Higher res, I'd download it from somewhere else.

you can still view it in standard res...