High-quality YouTube videos coming soon
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from http://www.news.com
YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, speaking at the NewTeeVee Live conference today, confirmed that high-quality YouTube video streams are coming soon. Although YouTube's goal, he said, is to make the site's vast library of content available to everyone, and that requires a fairly low-bitrate stream, the service is testing a player that detects the speed of the viewer's Net connection and serves up higher-quality video if viewers want it.
Why wouldn't they? Because 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 untill 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. -
3 cheers for high quality
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What a way to suck my bandwidth. I will have to implement bandwidth limits if my family members start watching Youtube.
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why? i tot broadband unlimited?Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:What a way to suck my bandwidth. I will have to implement bandwidth limits if my family members start watching Youtube. -
Bandwidth is not.Originally posted by mhcampboy:why? i tot broadband unlimited? -
oh?.. got such thing..? so must pay extra?Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:Bandwidth is not. -
lol u dont get what bandwidth is right?
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What you are referring to is data transfer, which is indeed unlimited, but the amount of data that can be transferred at any one time, aka bandwidth, is capped like any other internet connection.Originally posted by mhcampboy:oh?.. got such thing..? so must pay extra?
A good analogy would be like driving a car. You can have infinite fuel, but the red mini-van can only go this fast. -
Hmm..will this mean slower video loading time? The major attraction about youtube i feel, is the fast loading time for her videos.
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it's not nowOriginally posted by lpx88:Hmm..will this mean slower video loading time? The major attraction about youtube i feel, is the fast loading time for her videos.
I find microsoft's soap box faster -
yea dats one of da reasons we'r watch youtube cos we dont needa download it and its like instant watch. lol.Originally posted by lpx88:Hmm..will this mean slower video loading time? The major attraction about youtube i feel, is the fast loading time for her videos. -
good bah...at least won't see blur blur videos next time.
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thank u..Originally posted by LatecomerX:What you are referring to is data transfer, which is indeed unlimited, but the amount of data that can be transferred at any one time, aka bandwidth, is capped like any other internet connection.
A good analogy would be like driving a car. You can have infinite fuel, but the red mini-van can only go this fast.
data transfer...bandwith different
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that's a lie. nowadays youtube videos takes freaking long to load as compared to last time. usually after i click on a video, i pause it, do other stuffs, then come back view.Originally posted by lpx88:Hmm..will this mean slower video loading time? The major attraction about youtube i feel, is the fast loading time for her videos. -
I think it has something to do with the number of ppl viewing.Originally posted by Gordonator:that's a lie. nowadays youtube videos takes freaking long to load as compared to last time. usually after i click on a video, i pause it, do other stuffs, then come back view. -
i oweis dun like those sound ahead of movement video