Comments on: YouTube Turns on HD – And it Looks Fantastic!

By: Jigsaw hc

Jigsaw hc — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:27:34 +0000

Yeah, there is a much larger audience on YouTube so it is definitely great they are adding HD support.

By: Riyad Kalla

Riyad Kalla — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:33:34 +0000

Jigsaw,

I’ve always preferred *watching* Vimeo content. It’s usually very sharp like you send, and tends to lean towards amateur-production video as opposed to cell-phone-fodder.

But like Shadowolf said this new YouTube move is looking pretty dang sharp, with the ubiquity of YouTube that could give Vimeo a serious run for it’s money.

For authors interested in SEO, you also have to consider the inevitable YouTube-preference that Google must hold — certainly the integrated snapshot-in-search-results they are already showing for YouTube videos over the likes of other video sites.

I know that’s the only reason I’ve ever used YouTube before, because of the size of the audience and exposure I get to the search engine.

I’m pretty excited about this.

By: Shadowolf

Shadowolf — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:17:28 +0000

Wow! I justed checked out the youtube HD and I must say, very nice. It is a huge difference.

By: Jigsaw hc

Jigsaw hc — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:17:54 +0000

I’ve been using Vimeo.com for a while now because they support full HD video. For a free account you can only do one HD video a week, but for most people that is probably enough. If not you can pay like $60 a year for unlimited HD uploads (up to 2 GB a week if I remember right). I’ve really enjoyed the quality of their videos even on the non-HD stuff because it looks a lot better than any other sites I’ve tried.