YouTube To Improve Coloring-Book-Like Quality
We love YouTube. It's got a lot of competition for your postage stamp size viewing pleasure, but it's still the default setting for looking for video clips on the Net. Speaking at a conference yesterday, co-founder Steve Chen has confirmed that YouTube is going to make high-quality video streams available soon.
Chen told [c/net reporter Rafe Needleman] that he expects that high-quality YouTube vids 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 in. However, he said, a large portion of YouTube videos are pretty poor quality to begin with -- 320 x 240. Streaming them in high-quality mode isn't going to help much.
The YouTube player would detect the speed of your connection and offer higher quality video if you so desire. The catch? Get ready to go back to the bad old days of wanting to see a video clip and seeing that dreaded word: Buffering.
Chen told [c/net reporter Rafe Needleman] that he expects that high-quality YouTube vids 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 in. However, he said, a large portion of YouTube videos are pretty poor quality to begin with -- 320 x 240. Streaming them in high-quality mode isn't going to help much.
The YouTube player would detect the speed of your connection and offer higher quality video if you so desire. The catch? Get ready to go back to the bad old days of wanting to see a video clip and seeing that dreaded word: Buffering.
