On 15 February 2010 23:07, Hugh Guiney <[email protected]> wrote: > But even if we had a standard, YouTube further dilutes the meaning of > these abbreviations since they now also have a toggle button (depicted > as two arrows at a right angle) that expands or contracts the player > but leaves the quality setting the same. So if you select "360p", and > decide you want it to fill more of your screen, it will, but then it's > no longer 360 pixels tall because it's been scaled.
Erm, what? The 360p refers to the 'native' resolution of the video file youtube sends. If you play a 360p video fullscreen, it's still only got 360 lines; they're just scaled up. It would be meaningless if the number referred to the final playback size since that is independent of the video quality.
