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High-def junkies rejoice! Here comes YouTube in glorious 1080p HD
This is a well-timed feature release, because I'm certain plenty of 1080p cameras are going to be sold this christmas. YouTube's new HD isn't just good news for fans of gift-unboxing videos and dogs in holiday sweaters, though. Also consider the possibilities for new movie trailers and game demos. Eye candy city, here we come!
[via Mashable]
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Subscribe to commentsBertNov 13th 2009 8:18AM
I am still an SD flunky, but shouldn't that graphic read 1080 lines of HORIZONTAL resolution? or do I have to figure out some other new format, like 1080 X 608?
Sax25Nov 13th 2009 9:01AM
No, because there is a horizontal side and a vertical side. So if you take the VERTICAL side - there are 1080 lines coming out from that side (left to right/right to left). Even though technically the lines are horizontal, you count how many lines there are from top to bottom (1080) and top to bottom happens to be the VERTICAL plane, so that is why you say 1080 lines of VERTICAL resolution.
JimNov 13th 2009 9:06AM
I hope they increase the bandwidth...Sometimes YouTubes HD is slow to stream as is.
Hex TropeNov 13th 2009 2:09PM
As if Flash H.264 video didn't already kill my processor at 720p...
JamesNov 13th 2009 8:14PM
^^^^^^^^
What he said. I have to downscale my display to run Hulu fullscreen, regardless of what the actual *content* is encoded at (since the controls are rendered at the native display resolution). What's going to happen when Flash is flogging my poor processor with 1920*1080*24 bits of information per frame? We all know how well Flash handles (or *doesn't* handle) hardware acceleration -- HTML5 video can't get here soon enough...