On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Marguerita <[email protected]> wrote: > On thing that has held me back a bit has been my fear of losing my dial-up > viewers, esp. if I make HD vids, but I just checked my analytics and see that > only 4% of my viewers come at my blog on dial-up. Last time I had looked (a > year ago probably) it was a LOT more.
If you host your videos on Youtube (and probably others) then there is no penalty for moving to HD, you won't lose anyone. Youtube default to displaying the low res 360p version of the video for everyone. So it's HD only if the user chooses 720p in the option box. You upload a single HD version to Youtube (1280x720 or higher) and it will automatically produce and display the lower res versions. I did a post on this some time back and I was amazed at the number of bloggers who had no idea this is how it now works. The only penalty I paid by moving to HD was the increased disk space in the MPEG2 intermediate version, slower editing response time (for direct MP4 editing), and slightly bigger final uploaded files. My Raw MP4 HD video files actually take up less disk space than my previous SD PAL DV tape MPEG2 files. The only difference my viewers notice is that they now have a HD option available if they so chose it. Dave.
