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Good news. Some people already knew the "high quality" trick, but after watching some of the 720p widescreen examples.. The stream quality is amazing, indistinguishable from HD-TV. Like eggzs pointed out in his own way though, playing the videos smoothly will take a more or less powerful connection, preferably 5-10mb/s with an unlimited data plan.

 

 

 

It's good to see that YouTube is very likely utilizing the massive hard-drive storages of Google (heck, they even offer 7gb for Gmail, most of which is hardly in use) for high quality videos.

 

 

 

Maybe in a few years time, those grainy YT videos with horrible sound will be history, like 8-bit Nintendos with their funny, but cute beeping synthetic sounds :lol:

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Good news. Some people already knew the "high quality" trick, but after watching some of the 720p widescreen examples.. The stream quality is amazing, indistinguishable from HD-TV. Like eggzs pointed out in his own way though, playing the videos smoothly will take a more or less powerful connection, preferably 5-10mb/s with an unlimited data plan.

 

 

 

It's good to see that YouTube is very likely utilizing the massive hard-drive storages of Google (heck, they even offer 7gb for Gmail, most of which is hardly in use) for high quality videos.

 

 

 

Maybe in a few years time, those grainy YT videos with horrible sound will be history, like 8-bit Nintendos with their funny, but cute beeping synthetic sounds :lol:

 

 

 

Yeah, same htought here. I have basic dsl, so it's probly not for me :P

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Probably wont be common for maybe another 2 years, internet speeds in general aren't *that* fast even in western countries.

 

 

 

Japan and South Korea will likely get the first HD-on demand streaming vids from sites like Youtube, because their average consumer connections near the 30mb/s mark with up to 250mb/s available.

 

 

 

Most europeans and americans browse with 1-5mb/s which is actually pretty horrible for high-quality content. General rule of thumb: If it takes you longer to load a video than to actually play it, you don't have enough speed for enjoyable viewing (it will pause every 10 seconds to buffer which disrupts the playback and is annoying)

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