YouTube now supports 1080p high definition. Videos that are uploaded in 1920x1080 resolution will usually appear, after a day of extra encoding, with an elevator menu button on the red HD button. The button does not appear right away, and, NB, you must log out to see the button (just to make everyone stress a bit, I'm sure they will fix this) It works best with Google Chrome, but works with other browsers as well.
What does it all mean? Well, if you have the time and the bandwidth your videos will look better. Even if your goal is 720p, the extra file size is put to good use by youtube's encoders, so "regular" HD sees some benefit as well You can see the difference here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Egrj1eJRY You can view both 720p and 1080p If you have nothing else to do, you can look at the 720p version uploaded a few months ago here to see a more pronounced difference. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqgO-J_zjY0 When I remastered the video for 1080p I went through each frame (and it is a lot offrames) and removed the grain, so the new version looks pretty clean, just to see how good the youtube converter is. If you look at the background, it has less shimmer due the digital gain that is present to a greater or lesser degree in all video. It definitely is not as good as the original, but it right now is the best video image you can stream. And free..... dt To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
