If you follow the tech news, you probably already heard that YouTube is already testing and slowly preparing it’s videos to play in full HD 1080p.

It seems there are already some videos working in full High Definition.
I have no way to test it out here at home, but I’m posting some of them.

You’ll need a monitor compatible with the standard… and then just press the HD button and put it to fullscreen.
Wow… seems it was just yesterday that we had to watch really really crappy videos on YouTube.

I remember even doing a very long comparison review with several different video sharing websites, and the one thing YouTube was worst of all – video quality.
Google probably changed that…

Some people are failing to realize what this all means saying stuff like “my computer won’t support it” or “what’s the point of bigger resolutions if most of YouTube videos are crap”… and I kinda understand the complaints.
But the truth is: We’ll soon be able to watch DVD quality videos on YouTube. While the crappy videos will still continue to be majority, this also opens new possibilities for videos with great content.

People with weaker computers will still be able to watch it in normal resolution.
And the boundaries between YouTube and TVs/DVDs are becoming more blurred out with this and YouTube XL.
The only thing left is YouTube removing some of it’s uploading and time restrictions… or at least making them a bit more flexible… and voilá!

Source: TechEBlog and some research

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