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Re: YouTube Widescreen! Embeds!

WaterSoftenerGuy — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:38:26 -0000

Yes, about time to at least support 16x9, which makes everything look better IMHO! Forget those compainers they are just resistant to change no matter what it is. Go youtube!

Re: YouTube Widescreen! Embeds!

mary — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:14:27 -0000

Where is the comment section now I can't interact with the people who posted the video or song, And if it is a song I like I now have no way of finding it for purchase. The new lay out is horrible I was excited about the bigger screen but now everything else is gone the related video section is gone too. You Tube was great when it first came out but since google purchased it, it suck major

Re: YouTube Widescreen! Embeds!

Joshua Fabian — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:20:30 -0000

I remember when they were first beta testing their new video player (the one having square corners versus the old-style rounded player) to selected people in the spring that the player on YouTube.com itself WOULD detect 4:3 videos from 16:9 videos and ADJUST the player size to match the aspect ratio. It worked relatively well for me, but it must've been too buggy for YouTube and after several weeks they seemed to do away with it... I would not doubt that they're still working on this...

Still, I applaud YouTube for their latest moves these past few days.

Re: YouTube Widescreen! Embeds!

CWD — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:18:33 -0000

For a while it will look weird with all that black space, but people will start uploading videos in the new resolution and then it will be nice. It does use up more Internet bandwidth, though, doesn't it?

Re: YouTube Widescreen! Embeds!

MikeSchinkel — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:56:30 -0000

LOVE the 3rd criticism of the Neanderthals that you quoted. LOL! :-)

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Liz Hover — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:56:30 -0000

I must be missing something because I have absolutely no problem with the new aspect ratio on YouTube. The player screen, while physically larger, also feels more spacious and less cluttered. Videos have more room to breath. Thank you YouTube!

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Gadget Sleuth — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:09:18 -0000

Like the new widescreen, do NOT like the big search bar thing at the top. Just a company taking advantage of people imbedding stuff to loudly advertise themselves.

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Chun — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:24:44 -0000

Nice move for youtube. However, the embedded chromeless flash player and API still in stoneage flash 8 - bad for developers. Don't know if they see the faithful embedding is a conflict business objective, as unlike 2005/2006, when embedding helped them to take off from myspace.

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denis — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:47:19 -0000

The change to 16:9 is totally OK for me.
BUT that search baron the embedded videos is a joke.

Before reading the news that google added this search bar at the top I was trying to figure out what I did wrong or what code I changed on my own site that makes the videos appear that ugly all of a sudden.

I never imagined this is actually supposed to look like it does! This has to change: make it at least more narrow google.

Re: YouTube Widescreen! Embeds!

wDating — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:33:32 -0000

Its nice but should be optional

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Sky Xavier — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:21:57 -0000

This is really a nice and highly awaited feature. Finally youtube has made it. I like that still the quality of the video is not gone down. Thumbs up to this upgrade as well as this post.

Re: YouTube Widescreen! Embeds!

Web Freak — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:54:53 -0000

Now the embeds also have "Search" Bar in them!

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augeobenefits — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:49:00 -0000

I think it looks sharp. I'm not confused, lost, or angered ;) No I think it was a great change and will only be a good thing!

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