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), which offers full 720P, if of course the source file is high enough quality to begin with.
Above: Check out Matt in 720P
I hope people start to wake up to the differences between High Def for the living room and what we bat around as high def for the Web.
Watching Matt in full screen at “high quality” is a pretty lackluster experience at best.
Ben nailed it. Source material needs to be high enough quality to begin with. Otherwise you’re stuck with “Shit in, shit out.” I’m not sure that bringing the 720 or 1080 monickers over to the discussion of Web video is very helpful, or helpful at all. In fact, I think its outright confusing.
Lets face it, YouTube isn’t streaming the same signal and same “high-def” content to my browser that Cablevision is sending to my TV. We shouldn’t pretend that it is.
I’m positive about internet HiDef..!
Maybe you get more detail in your cablevision, but it doesn’t mean everyone have that thing.
And if I want to watch movie in the shore, do you think I should bring that cablevision and TV there??
It is easy to bring a laptop rather that those bulky things..
And as the technology growing rapidly with speed of internet access, nothing to worry that we can’t watch high QUALITY of a movie on our PC/Laptop.
And one more, how many choices of movies you find in your cableTV? and how many choices of movies do you think we can find on the internet?
Definitely, it is much more on the internet, isn’t it?
TQ