Yes, please make High Quality an option for HD videos, My videos are
HD but sadly the Normal Quality looks absolutely dismal for HD
uploads.. You really should address that as well, please make the
encoder for HD uploads do a better job on the Normal Quality..
So better "normal quality" for HD uploads AND/OR a "high quality"
viewing option in addition to the "normal" and "HD" for HD uploads.
One alternative to these solutions is to just do away with the
"normal" option on HD uploads and only have "high quality" or "HD" for
those vids.. People uploading in HD obviously want their vids to look
good, but what many viewers see is the horrible "normal" quality which
looks 100 times worse on the HD vids than on regular 'lower quality'
uploads.
I would love if this dreadful "normal" was not even possible on my
vids.. HQ or HD should be the 2 options on HD uploads.
Finally, switching video quality SHOULD restart the video. Most videos
are not hours long, but rather minutes. Changing quality a few seconds
into the video and having it pick up where it left off really destroys
the continuity of many short films. It is not enough that we must beg
viewers to watch in HD but now we must beg them to restart the video
from the beginning after switching to HD? I am sure that I'm not alone
in wanting people to view my entire video the way it was meant to be
viewed, not just the last half.
Having it so that if you are more than 5 minutes into the video it
will pick up where you left off would be alright I guess.
Your example of being halfway through an hour long video really
doesn't make much sense.. Most of YT's content is less than 10
minutes, and besides; who gets halfway through an hour long show and
THEN decides to switch to high quality? Basing a change on that sort
of extreme minority viewing experience when said change will be bad
for the vast majority of YT content just seems silly to me.
On Dec 19 2008, 6:30 am, YouTube Timmy wrote:
> We have two developments that we would like to share with you: the
> expansion of our HD player and a test of three new landing pages
> designed to help you find the news, music and movies on YouTube that
> matter most to you.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> ** HD on YouTube **
> Starting today, if you click the "watch in HD" option below any HD-
> enabled video, the video will automatically play in widescreen. As
> part of this launch, we have created an HD Videos area where you can
> browse videos uploaded in the HD format:http://www.youtube.com/browse?s=mphd&t=a&c=0&l=&b=0
> In anticipation of your questions – including how to encode your
> videos to take advantage of this new feature and how to avoid the
> dreaded "windowboxing" – we have prepared an FAQ in the Help Center:http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=132460&top...
> Hopefully you'll find any technical information you need there, but
> feel free to post follow-up questions here or on the YouTube Blog:http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=--fMNA_lkPM
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> ** New Video Landing Pages **
> News, music and movies are huge categories on YouTube and as a result
> it can sometimes be tough to find exactly what you're hoping to watch.
> In a bid to smooth your path to the perfect video, we are testing
> three new video landing pages:http://www.youtube.com/news,http://www.youtube.com/music, andhttp://www.youtube.com/movies.
> The news page will be populated with breaking stories from around the
> world as well as news drawn from the Google News service; music will
> feature rising videos alongside playlists dedicated to different
> genres; movies will showcase some of the most popular short and full-
> length movies on YouTube today. We'll keep a close eye on how these
> pages perform with a view to rolling them out in other categories.
> With these developments we are hoping to improve your viewing
> experience and make it easier to find the content you want to watch.
> Leave a comment here and let us know what you think…
> Happy holidays and, as always, have fun watching!
> The YouTube Team
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