YouTube allows full 1080p HD
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We're excited to say that support for watching 1080p HD videos in full resolution is on its way. Starting next week, YouTube's HD mode will add support for viewing videos in 720p or 1080p, depending on the resolution of the original source, up from our maximum output of 720p today.
And those of you who have already uploaded in 1080p, don't worry. We're in the process of re-encoding your videos so we can show them the way you intended.
As an example you can check out the Dark Knight trailer in full HD here. That is if your computer can run it. If you right click the video and press "show video info" you can see the amount of bandwidth and the FPS your computer runs it at.
If this becomes popular it will require a staggering amount of bandwidth from YouTube. I'm quite surprised they allow it.
More examples:
Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus HD 1080p Trailer
Prince Of Persia the Movie HD 1080p trailer
Avatar HD 1080p Trailer
We're excited to say that support for watching 1080p HD videos in full resolution is on its way. Starting next week, YouTube's HD mode will add support for viewing videos in 720p or 1080p, depending on the resolution of the original source, up from our maximum output of 720p today.
And those of you who have already uploaded in 1080p, don't worry. We're in the process of re-encoding your videos so we can show them the way you intended.
As an example you can check out the Dark Knight trailer in full HD here. That is if your computer can run it. If you right click the video and press "show video info" you can see the amount of bandwidth and the FPS your computer runs it at.
If this becomes popular it will require a staggering amount of bandwidth from YouTube. I'm quite surprised they allow it.
More examples:
Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus HD 1080p Trailer
Prince Of Persia the Movie HD 1080p trailer
Avatar HD 1080p Trailer
9 Comments
xxovercastxxUgh.. die, flash, die. Takes longer to load than it does to watch.
cybrbeastIt is an enormous amount of bandwidth. That dark knight clip is 64MB and highly compressed. I have a pretty fast connection and computer and the 1080p loads quickly, i.e. much faster than I can watch it. It also plays at a smooth 30fps most of the time.
deathcowI have been backing up my blurays lately and found in experimenting that 25 GB - 30 GB movies still look incredible when scaled to fit on a DVD-DL (9+ GB) Youtube in 1080P is going to be great with these short clips we typically watch!
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
YouTube is already jittery on Mac's Flash player - this shall be worse.
deathcowthe 1080P stuff looks aweeeeesome... check out the storm chasers 1080P bit... this stuff plays liquid smooth on an i7 with a geforce 260
lucky760Streams for me at about 3-4MB/s yielding zero buffer delay, and my PC seems capable of playing it without any stutter or lag on my 24" monitor, thank goodness. It's extremely beautiful. I can't wait until this feature launches in full. I heart Google.
Thanks for sharing, cybrbeast.
deathcowI have to buffer the holy hell out of it though, no streaming here!
antFlash 10.1 beta uses GPU now.
cybrbeastThat's a nice development.
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