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High-def junkies rejoice! Here comes YouTube in glorious 1080p HD
This is a well-timed feature release, because I'm certain plenty of 1080p cameras are going to be sold this christmas. YouTube's new HD isn't just good news for fans of gift-unboxing videos and dogs in holiday sweaters, though. Also consider the possibilities for new movie trailers and game demos. Eye candy city, here we come!
[via Mashable]

I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Bert said 8:18AM on 11-13-2009
I am still an SD flunky, but shouldn't that graphic read 1080 lines of HORIZONTAL resolution? or do I have to figure out some other new format, like 1080 X 608?
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Sax25 said 9:01AM on 11-13-2009
No, because there is a horizontal side and a vertical side. So if you take the VERTICAL side - there are 1080 lines coming out from that side (left to right/right to left). Even though technically the lines are horizontal, you count how many lines there are from top to bottom (1080) and top to bottom happens to be the VERTICAL plane, so that is why you say 1080 lines of VERTICAL resolution.
Jim said 9:06AM on 11-13-2009
I hope they increase the bandwidth...Sometimes YouTubes HD is slow to stream as is.
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Hex Trope said 2:09PM on 11-13-2009
As if Flash H.264 video didn't already kill my processor at 720p...
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James said 8:14PM on 11-13-2009
^^^^^^^^
What he said. I have to downscale my display to run Hulu fullscreen, regardless of what the actual *content* is encoded at (since the controls are rendered at the native display resolution). What's going to happen when Flash is flogging my poor processor with 1920*1080*24 bits of information per frame? We all know how well Flash handles (or *doesn't* handle) hardware acceleration -- HTML5 video can't get here soon enough...