Youtube Goes 1080p
Posted 11/12/09 at 08:43:53 PM by Ryan Whitwam
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In recent years, 1080p camcorders have found their way into more consumers’ hands. Now YouTube will allow people to take advantage of all those pixels. Starting next week, the HD options on the popular video sharing site will include both 720p and 1080p, provided the original source allows it.
There is a test video already up here. Performance seems to be good, but it doesn’t look tremendously different from current YouTube HD offerings. If you have an HD camera, YouTube would like you upload some 1080p video. They will be highlighting some of the best footage on the front page soon. If you shoot HD video, will you take the extra time to upload your videos in 1080p?
Whatever youtube now calls
Submitted by rook on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 3:04pm
Whatever youtube now calls HD isn't even called HD.
HD is must have a resolution of 1920x1080 or 1280x720. And the bitrate should should be high as well.
The test vid looks like crap.
It's crap naming/marketing for whatever reason.
Submitted by GFC on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 2:50am
YES!!!!!! I SO WANTED THAT! wh00t!! <3 youtube x}
Submitted by chocobo on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 2:49am
the test video is awful, the camera AND the dog are constantly moving, so the video is very blurry and very shaky. as evidenced by the comments, you can't even tell it's 1080p.
so aside from that... I guess it's cool that Youtube can do this, but I think it's pretty unnecessary. 720p video is of excellent quality, and 1080p means larger file sizes, slower downloads, and potentially choppy playback if the internet connection isn't fast enough. Not a great tradeoff for marginally more detailed picture quality.
I would never upload anything in 1080p myself.
Unfulfilled potential
Submitted by Taz0 on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 11:11am
1080p has the potential to look much better than 720p. The problem is, 720p has a 0.9 megapixel image whereas 1080p has a 2.0 megapixel image - 2.25 times the pixels, but YouTube is only allocating 1.7 times the bitrate. The low bitrate (for so many pixel) results in increased compression, which manifests as a blurry, artifact-ridden video, and even though it contains more pixels, due to the high compression the video doesn't appear to much better than the 720p video. Too bad.
I'm sure alot of people
Submitted by Scatmanbrandt on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 9:28pm
I'm sure alot of people would do it, I personally would too if I could afford the camera and editing tools. It's more about the fact that people can now say "Hey subscribe to me, in 1080p!!1!"
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1080p only defines the
Submitted by Airheadq on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 8:44pm
1080p only defines the resolution of the video, 1920 by 1080. It "is" 1080p but the quality is due to the orginal video. You can have a crappy 320 by 480 video and resize/upscale it to 1980 by 1080 and it technically is 1080p.
Submitted by zulfy26 on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 8:08pm
That test video is not 1080p. It might have the fmt hack bumping up the bitrate, but that doesn't look anywhere close to HD quality. Most of the fur on the dog is blurry and you can't make out individual hairs.
A couple mistakes in the video
Submitted by WarCrime342 on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 9:17pm
A lot of consumer 1080p cameras don't handle indoor lighting and close-up details that well. If the woman holding the camera backed off about a foot and added sufficient lighting, I bet you would have seen the difference. Hardly a great test video.
Submitted by pellier on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 7:20pm
Vimeo beats youtube any day. The quality of the videos is much higher and there aren't any 10 year old kids with ADHD commenting on videos.
Well... YouTube might
Submitted by WolfdaleX86 on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 7:12pm
Triple post. Sorry I got trigger happy.
Submitted by WolfdaleX86 on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 7:11pm
Double post.
Submitted by WolfdaleX86 on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 7:09pm
Well... YouTube might need to increase the 1GB upload limit for 1080p videos.
Submitted by Onyx2291 on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 7:02pm
Doesn't look all that different to me to be honest. But it's awesome that they're doing that. May just be the quality of the actual video uploaded.
-Onyx
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