YouTube 1080p

[N!ck]

Your first example video is only in 720p HD, only the second one has the 1080 option.



My internet can handle it and i'm on a 10mb connection which is pretty average now. plus if you don't have the fastest connection just watch it in lower HD or normal quality - nothings changed there.

Yeah you can't whinge about connection speeds when virgin are doing ~10mbps internet on the cheap, its advertised as up to 8 but we get more than that

10Mbps is not enough to handle proper 1080p content. Encoded down to H.264 1080p is ~15Mbps bitrate (variable) so you'd need at least a 20Mbps connection (and be able to use the full 20Mbps on a single thread). Compare this to Blu-Ray which has ~30Mbps (vairable) so you're going to need a 50Mbps connection and be able to get the full speed in a single thread.

Expensive for both the end user and YouTube (or whoever).

As some random guy said: "720p at a proper bitrate will smash low bitrate 1080p all day."

They should sort out what they already have first before bringing out new.

[Stephen!]

Since flash sucks, it eats up my CPU on even my quad core q6600, can't wait until they release flash 10.1 from beta with GPU accelerated video playback.

Has been out for a few weeks but I've only just noticed it to be honest.

Flash 10.1 beta already has GPU acceleration, you just need to update your video drivers.

[GommeInc]

It's good, but hardly amazing. YouTube is terrible at the moment, videos don't load as fast as they should, compared to the past :/

[Tomm]

Yeah I know, thats what I said. I said when they release it from beta as the beta version has some stability issues at the moment apparently and a few sites are not compatible with it, so i'm waiting until the final release is out.

Flash 10.1 beta already has GPU acceleration, you just need to update your video drivers.