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High-Quality YouTube Videos Coming Soon

Posted by Zonk on from the bit-more-like-teevee dept.

mlauzon writes with the news that YouTube's co-founder Steve Chen has announced high-quality video streams are in the works for the popular site. He spoke today at the NewTeeVee Live event, discussing the challenges facing the project and when we can expect to see less grainy social videos. "The need to buffer the video before it starts playing will change the experience. Hence the experiment, rather than just a rapid rollout of this technology. On stage, he said the current resolution of YouTube videos has been "good enough" for the site until now. Chen told me he expects that high-quality YouTube videos will be available to everyone within three months. Chen also confirmed that in YouTube's internal archive, all video is stored at the native resolution in which it was sent. However, he said, a large portion of YouTube videos are pretty poor quality to begin with — 320x240. Streaming them in high-quality mode isn't going to help much."

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  1. SO how long by techpawn · · Score: 4, Funny

    Till this is applied to all the YouTube Porn knock offs?

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  2. To bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    To bad they are only talking about resolution.

  3. High quality video content... by pheared · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...still in development.

  4. In other news by moogied · · Score: 5, Funny
    The internet was found dead in its apartment today. Appearently from a broken back. A short statured man was found near the crime scene trying to limp home. Upon being arrested by ICANN the man was heard screaming "but YOU TUBE! YOU TUBE! I KNOW YOU TUBE!"

    It is survived by ARPANET, and SneakerNET. As well as PigeonNET

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  5. Proviso by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 5, Funny
    "High-Quality Video" refers only to the medium, not the content.

    That is all.

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  6. Re:Better rants doesn't imply better videos... by MightyYar · · Score: 2, Funny

    YouTube is going to dissolve copyright?

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  7. 3 months? by bigdavex · · Score: 3, Funny

    Chen told me he expects that high-quality YouTube videos will be available to everyone within three months.

    I think after about 2 months I'd say, "Screw it, I'm sick of staring at this 'buffering' animation."
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  8. Oh... does this mean... by Cnik70 · · Score: 2, Funny

    .....That all the little emo fucktards will now look 'REALLY SAD'? Just what we need, hi-def whining

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  9. Awesome, now we get to... by mitchdl · · Score: 2, Funny

    relive all the glorious awkwardness of the teenage years in high res. I've always wanted to experience low brow home video complete with more prominent acne, shinier braces and burgeoning facial fuzz. Is it possible that people will post less once the skin enhancing blur of low quality is taken away and their imperfections become more glaring?