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.

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** 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

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** 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, and http://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