Thread: Youtube going to allow full HD 1080P.
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Old 11-13-2009, 01:39 PM  
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Still will have the 10 minute length but they will start allowing full 1080P HD video starting next week I think. Current videos that were uploaded and were HD and stuck at their current standard of 720p are being re-encoded to 1080p. They do admit the videos will be slower to load for most people, but the videos are larger (duh!).

If they are bleeding money damn, wouldnt that about double their costs on new video uploads and sharing?
According to a link I posted recently, Youtube's hosting cost is close to ZERO. This is due to the fact they are layered on Google's existing immense hardware architecture.
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