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YouTube Videos to Go High Def

by Evan Shamoon on November 16, 2007 at 09:55 AM

YouTube Goes High Def
YouTube, an online video sharing service that you may have heard of at one point or another, is upping its resolution.

At the NewTeeVee Live conference yesterday, co-founder (and now super-mega-rich) Steve Chen confirmed that high-quality video streams are on the way. But it won't be exclusionary: he said their aim is to make YouTube content available to everyone, so they're now testing a player that actually detects the speed of the viewer's Internet connection, and on slower lines, serves up higher-quality video only if the viewer wants it.

Also interesting is that in YouTube's internal archives, all video is stored at the native resolution in which it was sent -- meaning even much of the old stuff will now be in high(er) resolution than it is now.

Expect high-quality videos of kittens kneading their paws into fluffy pillows within three months. We're already counting the days.

From CNET

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Tags: high def, HighDef, video, youtube

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