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YouTube Goes Wide, Adds HD Section [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network —
YouTube is making it easier to find and enjoy HD content on the site. The video-sharing giant has launched an HD section, where you can browse videos uploaded in the high-definition format. Once you’ve found a video you want to see, clicking on the “Watch in HD” link brings up a really widescreen player (see ...
YouTube’s relationship with HD video gets serious
VentureBeat —
YouTube is introducing an expanded high definition video section today. It’s an obvious move, improving the viewing experience and the ability to target advertising; until now HD content was mixed in with videos encoded at YouTube’s regular resolution.
YouTube has been offering a limited selection of HD videos over the past few weeks, with links indicating which ones were available in high definition. Clicking the “watch in HD” link beneath any HD-enabled video will now open the video in a widescreen, much larger player, according to the YouTube blog, Widescreen is a feature that ...
YouTube launches HD video page
Webware.com —
YouTube announced Thursday that it has launched a new landing page to corral all the high-definition video uploaded to the site.
Along with the new page, YouTube's HD player now launches in a widescreen window that takes up the majority of the browser window. YouTube posted an FAQ on how to how to encode HD videos and how to avoid "windowboxing"--images that are surrounded by black bars.
The video-sharing site quietly rolled out HD-enabled videos earlier this month by adding a "watch in HD" option where the "watch in high quality" option usually appears. Last month, the site began expanding the ...
