By Thilak ⋅ November 17, 2007

High Quality Videos coming soon on YouTube

YouTube is the king of the hill when it comes to online videos, but that’s not the same for their video quality. Other video sharing sites like Blip.tv and Brightcove beat YouTube in many aspects. Video quality is one among those. At NewTeeVee Live, Om Malik and Liz Gannes had a chat with YouTube co-founder, Steve Chen. He told that within the next three months, we should be able to see high quality videos on YouTube.

At the initial stage, YouTube won’t be offering high quality videos to everyone. They plan to detect the speed of the viewer’s internet connection and then decide whether to offer high quality or not. Why? Because some viewers don’t have broadband connection and offering high quality video streams to non-broadband users might destroy their viewing experience as it takes endlessly long to buffer the video.

YouTube has an internal archive of all videos sent in their native resolution, but some uploaders stripped down their resolution to 320×240, so converting such videos won’t help. Some blogs are confusing high quality with HD, but Liz Gannes has confirmed that he didn’t mention anything about HD.

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Discussion

Comments for “High Quality Videos coming soon on YouTube”

  • Thilak, to tell the truth, one other blog actually did a review of this site's script and software and thats how I came to know about it. I was really amazed by the features and all.

    I'm very sorry I commented about it. But, I believe that, whats meant to be said ... should be said. Hope you take it in that sense.

    And, yeah, STAY AWAY FROM IT, KIDS !! ;)
  • Tech Roach: I fell for it, I almost forgot that it is a porn site and entered the site. Kids, stay out!
  • Well, its almost time they did something like that. But, the thing is, I would prefer speed over quality though.

    I know its embarassing but the most perfect video sharing website I've ever seen is RedTube.com.

    # Preview slideshow for thumbnails (On mouse hover)
    # Sleek and Cool interface.
    # Fast player
    # TOP NOTCH QUALITY !!!

    Wow !! Redtube.com !!
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