YouTube Goes Wide Screen, Who Cares?
Way to go YouTube, you’re late. You’ve been outdone for months, and finally trying to play catchup. Not only are you releasing your high quality “HQ” video with wide screen format late, you’re also doing a sloppy job of your CSS. Note the links in the image above, in the bottom right corner of the video itself.
Take a note from Virb, they’ve had a nice clean CSS as well as wide screen HQ video since day one. Additional features such as a dim switch to darken the rest of the screen make this video player a superior option. Another player on a level of its own is Hulu. Hulu plays wide screen, 360p/480p, has a dim switch, full screen, and content quality that deserves such a player.
Maybe that’s the point, the quality of content on YouTube doesn’t deserve a truly great player. The content is crap, so should be the player? Let’s see what happens with support for higher quality video and the new release of the Flip MinoHD. Will the content get any better? Or will it just look better?
The real concern is the update of the YouTube player for iPhone and G1. The G1 will have flash support soon enough, and with the game changer on the way, you might be looking back at this post a year from now saying “What’s a YouTube player?”
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