Finally After Plenty of Demand

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7 commentsThursday, November 27, 2008

YouTube Goes Big and Wide

Finally After Plenty of Demand

7 Comments

By Clipland (WPN reader) - Sat, 11/29/2008 - 08:33

YouTube goes wide on videos

On our blog, we have a recent post about YouTube's switch to wide videos and how this fits with the overall strategy to drive towards technically higher quality videos in wider formats.

By Jane Jiang (WPN reader) - Thu, 11/27/2008 - 21:53

Pleasantly surprised

I have seen the change. Good for me to view while sometime my video is not played smoothly at trafic in CN. Hope someday soon it will be good for all of us.

By Chris (WPN reader) - Tue, 11/25/2008 - 21:18

I like the larger video

I like the larger video player .

By Diamonds (WPN reader) - Tue, 11/25/2008 - 13:34

Wider resolution indeed but

Wider resolution indeed but still too pixelated for me. I'm sure they'll keep making this better...

By Aydin (WPN reader) - Tue, 11/25/2008 - 11:37

This is great about the wide perspective, but one thing is still a problem and that is the High Quality version will not embed, which to me makes no sense. If I place a High Quality vid up I want everyone to see it that way no matter where it is. You Tube needs to look at that. When this happens then we'll certainly see monetization etc. ability from You Tube.

By Chris Crum - Tue, 11/25/2008 - 12:01

RE: YouTube High Quality

Hmmm. Maybe the embedding option was disabled on one you tried? Wired has an HD vid embedded here. Although it does play a bit sluggish for me.

By FaTe (WPN reader) - Tue, 11/25/2008 - 15:35

yeah forcing users straight

yeah forcing users straight into high quality streaming video could be very annoying for most target audiences the idea of being able to see a short piece in low quality then move the better quality version if interested makes more sense.

Detering visitors or potential buyers with pages that could effectively turn them away makes no sense for any site.