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YouTube 360/480/720/1080 Rant

January 28th, 2010

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As I’m sure all of you have noticed, recently YouTube has recent introduced a new video player. It features a sleeker design with an updated “HD” button. The the new player let’s you decide between 360/480/720P and 1080P. Yes this is nice, but why? What is the need for a 320P and 480P version of every video? There is a very minimal difference in actual video size (Mb’s and Gb’s) between 480P and 360P. So why not go with the higher quality. I’m sure that the 360P version of videos is for mobile phones, but then why show them for an option online?
Why can they just do like before with an “SD” and “HD” button? SD would be 480P and HD would be 720P by default, unless the video also had a 1080P option. How is my grandmother supposed to know the difference between 360, 480, 720, and 1080P? She does know the difference between HD and SD, but now am I supposed to tell her click on the highest number?

I know I’m making this a bigger deal than it is, but it kind of annoys me. Tell me what you think in the comments.

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Posted in Reviews, Web

Tags: 1080p, 480, 720p, hd, internet, new, play, player, sd, video, youtube

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gangsterszm

Yup u are absolutely wrong. This is the best thing till now. the options 360p, 480p, 720p and 1080p are excellent. Better than before. Everyone likes it. YouTube won't just change it for you. You hate it doesn't mean that everyone hates it. So YouTube, ROCK ON!!!

Jish

I'm with Biggs. They should save your last quality setting and use that as the quality for the next video your gonna play. Its annoying sometimes having to switch every damn video to 360p when I want it to load fast.

Biggs

there is really no mother f****** difference i dont give a rats buttocks and never will-the only diff is that one makes all my youtube vids load slower and now they are defaulting it to the higher version and now when i start a vid i have to set it at lower Q and make it reload all over again , my comp. isnt really that slow but i just get REALLY PISSED when i try to watch vids in consecutive order at a time... it just gets on my nerves!!!!

Griffin

If it's a tutorial (etc) where I don't want it fullscreen, I typically keep it at 360p so it loads faster. For me the 720p so far was barely worth the added wait.