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i predicted this ages ago - it's just natural progression. Eventually you'll be able to watch full HD movies on full screens using YouTube. It will make the tiny, low quality virals that we watch now look so basic.
16 comments Thursday, July 2, 2009
YouTube About to Become Higher Quality
Increases Upload Limit, Look for More HD Content
By Chris Crum
YouTube has doubled the size of what users are now able to upload at a time. Until now, users were only able to upload 1GB, and now they can upload 2GB. This means longer videos with higher resolutions.
YouTube product manager Ryan Junee also points out that users can upload large HD files directly from their cameras. Essentially this means, we will start seeing a lot more quality (at least picture-wise) videos on YouTube.
Junee shares a couple tips for linking to and embedding HD versions of videos:
- To share a link to the HD version of your video, simply append &hd=1 to the end of the URL. This means the video will start playing in HD as soon as someone follows the link. Cool, huh?
- To embed the HD version of a video on a website or blog, click the 'customize' button to the right of the embed box on the video page. Some options will appear; simply check 'play in HD'. The embed code that's generated will cause the video to start playing in HD as soon as a viewer clicks play. We recommend embedding HD videos at the largest size (853x505) for maximum enjoyment.
The increased uploading limit should do nothing but make YouTube a better place to watch videos. The more high quality content that is uploaded, the more people will be likely to stick around and watch more of it.
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Good news
That'll be a good change as some of the videos at YouTube are really bad in quality.