YouTube Goes 16:9

YouTube, which recently rolled out 720P quality has redesigned its pages to include a widescreen player. As more content is created in 16:9 resolution this should put YouTube in greater competition with sites like Vimeo which cater to and have been winning over professional producers.

It should also increase average time viewing and help YouTube [...]

YouTube in 720P

YouTube continues to up its quality options. A while back, we picked up on the fact that YouTube was transcoding video to higher quality, by adding &fmt=18, you can view a 480×360 H.264 encoded version with AAC audio at bitrates up to 850K.

Now, a YouTube engineer tells Kottke they have added format 22 (&fmt=22), [...]