Youtube going to allow full HD 1080P.
 

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?

Shit, thats going to be a whack on there servers... Obviously they can afford it, but... :2 cents:

Hmmm, yea that's not a good sign TBH

That is what I was thinking. I just did not want to leave yet another long post.

I was just reading an article talking about how youtube has yet to figure out how to make money, and now they are doing this? Need to dump my google stock... oh wait, I did already.

Crazy!!

What next ? YouTube Blu-Ray vids ???

youtube will regret all these things including allowing the user to make the video bigger, its destroying every chance they had of making money off this thing

Escortbiz, I am not sure profit is their goal. I think they do want to provide free services to collect data.

their videos already load so fucking slow

Won't be long before adult tube sites will be offering full HD.
WG

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.

They have go to a multiple server solution now, there's no way that there current one server can handle this upgrade

HD is the same shit as Blue-ray

:2 cents:

bullshit their costs might be low but nowhere near 0

Google does not breakdown or disclose revenue by departments, so only they know how much Youtube makes or doesn't make. Given that Youtube uses more bandwidth than any site on the net, I would imagine the site is being used as a tool for technologies of scale that even google.com cannot achieve. Google is making a huge profit, it's irrelevant at this point if youtube is losing money. Data is what they are after.

Shitloads of outbound content = peer muscle. Some ISPs may even pay google to carry their content.

:2 cents::thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsu p

I think bandwidth is not a problem, because Full HD require only 10mbits.
But question is that: What CPU we need to watch FULL HD using flash ?

Didn't they burn enough money already? Even if they only use youtube to collect data it's hard to believe blowing out even more money will help them in any way ...

My thoughts exactly :helpme

Google is going to surprise everyone when they announce Youtube hits profitability. Everyone overestimates their costs, and underestimates their revenues. I can't go to youtube now days without seeing multiple ads all over the place, and I don't even mind, because I view it in widescreen and the quality is improving.

that will be purdy

Barely any videos are true 1080P, lucky if 1% of videos uploaded are actually the full quality.

That's pretty killer -

We shall see in a week.

"and I don't even mind, because I view it in widescreen"

the advertisers do mind and at the end of the day they decide whats worth it for them or not, thats why noone uses youtube to advertise long term, they come and go and sooner or later no more suckers,

the CTR is terrible

you know, i have not clicked through on a paid ad on facebook, gmail, youtube, (or gfy for that matter), in YEARS. am i the only one? i'm so desensitized i haven't really noticed any ads for many years now.

google doesn't have bandwidth bill. i'm serious. check this out: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/...ube-bandwidth/

Same here.

full 1080p is really rocks

That's great. Now I can see someone get kicked in the nuts in HD.

That's right. It's a waste of bandwidth.

yup, avg surfer who surfs 3 hours a day after 7 days id say at least 200 ads flashed by his face, I doubt they can recall 1

lol.... :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

they will ruin $$$ :)

Trust GG to know what they're doing...

dont act so smart.
google isnt stupid.
criticizing something you have no insight into just makes you look like a clueless idiot.

I think YouTube is going to partially replace tv in the future. Bandwidth costs are irrelevent to Google. HD video on the new 10-inch led apple tablet and similar setups coupled with Netflix streaming, YouTube, buying shows through Itunes, etc will allow many people to dump cable. That will free up $50+/month per person to spend on Youtube and other providers of video. I will happily dump cable myself once I can buy HD streamed sporting events for a buck or two each.

I personally am not sure either way. That is why I said IF.

Maybe all or one of you can explain to me what allowing this, including encoding the past 720d movies to 1020 has to do with net neutrality.

Plus for some more info on why:

The news signifies an even deeper commitment by Google, the search giant, to provide video content that rivals what the most sophisticated cable and over-the-air broadcast networks offer.
The company is also pushing into new types of video-recommendation techniques that will not only suggest directly related videos to users but also use sophisticated algorithms to ascertain what a user will like based on previous viewing history and other indirect factors. This could turn YouTube into a video-discovery engine, similar to Internet radio company Pandora.com.

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could prove to be a far more lucrative format. Recommendation engines, when properly done, can significantly increase user engagement and can make ad spots more valuable on recommended streams.

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On the net neutrality issue I could just find this in info.

The introduction of more high-quality video will increase the friction between Google, and particularly YouTube, and various internet service providers in the US, where "net neutrality" has become a sore point. Some ISPs and telephone companies argue that companies which send large amounts of data - particularly video - over their networks should pay to ensure that it does not block others from sending their data. Google and other companies contend that it is the telephone companies' and ISPs' responsibility to maintain the standards of their networks to meet growing demand for high-volume data transmission.

Guess they are saying if you do not like how much we use now, here fuck you!

:Oh crap

At least their system won't reduce quality when you upload a vid ;)

Get rid of your dial up. They actually load super fast.

again if they are trying to have youtube be something that generates clicks for advertisers this will not help

if they simply want user traffic then yes this will work

there are times when youtube does load very slow and in the past months several times where they where down for 30+ minutes

I wish i had that problem of having 500 million daily hits and being down 30 minutes a month but the point is sometimes even with high speed connection it is slow

I have to agree at least partially with this.

Cool, but honestly, I don't really notice a difference between 720 & 1080..:2 cents:

I highly doubt that will happen..