“As resolution of consumer cameras increases, we want to make sure YouTube is the best home on the web to showcase your content,” Biggs reports. “For viewers with big monitors and a fast computer, try switching to 1080p to get the most out of the fullscreen experience.”
“Have an HD camera? We would love to see your awesome 1080p videos! Be creative and choose subjects that really show off the beauty of your camera,” Biggs reports. “We will run the best examples on our homepage in a future spotlight.”
Biggs reports, “And those of you who have already uploaded in 1080p, don’t worry. We’re in the process of re-encoding your videos so we can show them the way you intended.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: Here’s a test 1080p video from YouTube:
Direct link to video via YouTube here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James W.” for the heads up.]
lets show off 1080p by giving the most boring video. yawn
Cool. This should bring the entire internet to it’s knees. Wait until people with metered bandwidth get their December bills. Care to guess how long it will be until the rest of us have metered bandwidth too?
I don’t think the dog’s that impressed by 1080p HD video.
Is this actually an improvement???
. . . . or another case of SPECS over SUBSTANCE and another case of
creating an underclass of internet users without broadband above 3 Mgs. Low bit depth bit rate starved
1080 P does not look pretty no matter how loudly they trumpet “but it’s 1080 P, but it’s 1080 P” . . . most of the time
I can’t get YOU TUBE to play without
skipping and losing sync in LOW definition. As I said, bad 1080 P IS NOT pretty no matter how much 1080 P lipstick you spin on it. . . . . and YES, of course, bad content is still bad content.
the flv compressions so bad i don’t see the point of going 1080
still looks terrible
Hi Captain! –
I think the video quality looks quite fine given the content you find on YouTube. If YouTube’s skipping, that’s your internet connection. Complaints seem unwarranted and not necessary. Of course, I feel sorry for the masses subjected to Star Wars kid in HD.
Actually on something like a dog, you can really see the sharp detail of the hair and such… very cool!
Wow, that looks terrible. What good is 1080p if it doesn’t get you any extra detail? The brown patch of hair under the dog’s eye had no hair detail. They stripped out the luminance (read black and white detail) and left the color. Looks like a giant patch of orange mud.
Also, the shadow detail was total crap looking at the nose of the dog. Just a big black pool of nothing. A real 1080p image that wasn’t so heavily compressed would have shown so much more.
Lets face it, 1080p across the internet isn’t prime time ready.
so since we can see whiskers we are suppose to be thrilled with this … it looks ok … but nothing special ….
Let me guess.
You’re on a huge monitor and clicking the fullscreen icon which stretches the image to 2560×1600 or something bigger than 1080p and bitching that you can see artifacts.
Anyway, I’ll wait for a sample that doesn’t have suck lighting.
Mmm, buffering. Snapless!
this is such a crock..
just because the resolution is 1080 doesn’t mean it’s going to look like BluRay… they’re still going to compress the living hell out of it, so it’ll be 16×9 and still look like YouTube.
Now if they could just get rid of the ads.
Fantastic. But it would have been better if he’d used a tripod so we could realy examine the hairs on the dog. But I could see it was HD. There goes my bandwidth.
rws – You aren’t hypnotised into automatically buying everything you see in the ads are you? Just ignore them. No ads = no youtube.
Compared to a lot of video I’ve seen on YouTube, I think this is a definite step forward. I agree with Johnny — at default resolution, the detail you can see on the dog is pretty good. If you’re seeing garbage or artifacts, view it at the default res or go buy a new digital monitor and trash that CRT.
Can’t wait to get Rickrolled in HD.
The “p” should stand for “porn”. Ahhhhhh……high def porn. Nothing better.
Body language says, “Unplug already.”
What the hell, their servers have enough of a time delivering SD or the current ‘HD’! How long are we gonna have to wait for this shit to buffer?
To see an actually dazzaling HD video on YouTube, view SMPFilms “EPIC Wedding – Movie Trailer”
Makes me want to buy a 1080 HD camera