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YouTube ups the video quality, coming soon to TiVo
The eagle-eyed folks at CyberNet noticed there's also a new option in the YouTube account settings that should keep you from ever having to click the "higher quality" button. Just navigate to your account settings, and under the Account heading you should see an section labeled "Video Playback Quality."
In other YouTube-related news, TiVo today announced plans to add a YouTube video section to its set top box software later this year. The software update will be available for TiVo HD and TiVo Series3 units only, which is probably because older TiVo models don't have the hardware to decode H.264 video. Now, if you've ever tried watching YouTube videos on a high definition TV, you know that most videos look like crap when you blow them up on a big screen. So hopefully a larger percentage of YouTube videos will be available in higher quality by the time the TiVo service launches.
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Todd said 4:53PM on 3-12-2008
Just tried it. Yes I have all the above mentioned options in my account once signed in. I watch a few new music videos and there is a noticeably high quality to both the video and audio. In full screen mode its still pretty "jaggy" but better than before. On older, user created videos I assume some form of upsampling is being done, but I cannot see any improvement.
My question is, if they are allowing higher quality uploads, did they increase the file size limit of 100MB?
STILL waiting for the day YouTube allows for live web camming from users.
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