YouTube Announces Plans to Stream 1080p Video
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YouTube has announced plans to stream video in 1080p.
YouTube this week announced in a blog post that, starting next week, the Google-owned video hosting site will start streaming content in high definition.
"Starting next week, YouTube's HD mode will add support for viewing videos in 720p or 1080p, depending on the resolution of the original source, up from our maximum output of 720p today," said Software Engineer Billy Biggs.
YouTubers should see the change over the next few days and the site is encouraging users to up their monitors to 1080p so they can really enjoy full screen videos.
Bigg says the folks at YouTube are in the process of re-encoding all the 1080p videos users have already uploaded.
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Is this really that big of change? "[...] YouTube's HD mode [...] viewing videos in 720p or 1080p[...]"
You can still enjoy your lower quality videos... chill
Don't get me wrong I LOVE HD and I guess this might be a sign that in the future box office movies will stream on youtube.
I would love to see the day when I can watch theater released movies in my home on release day in HD quality streaming from youtube and paying a small fee like I would a ticket but now I get to control the sound volume or pause the movie if I want to ( tho I highly doubt something like this will happen, in the eyes of the studios 1 person pays and he can have his friends family and neighbors in to see it )
I really hate having a so limited bandwidth.
(come on Comcast, improve your network first.. before charging people more and giving them less)
My mobile phone(30$ a month) is faster
Of course they have to compress. Look back a few years and see how they went from utter crap (unless you used &fmt=18), to introducing high quality, to 720p which is pretty decent. 1080p should look bomb. It won't be Bluray, but you are streaming this...
My complaint is how to upload 1080p videos, as other people have already pointed out. I get 26/22, about 3 MB/s each way with Verizon fios. The upload is too good for the Youtube servers to keep up. This is disastrous. Joking aside, I feel sorry for the people who live outside of Verizon's reach and for those who have to put up with dumb bandwidth caps.