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Youtube Huge Resolution Update

markracz — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:03:45 +0000

The people over at Youtube announced this weekend during the VidCon that their players will support the 4k resolution videos, which is (yes) four times larger than 1080p (and twice as much as IMAX). The ideal screen to watch a 4k video must have 25 feet (that’s alright, I’ll just turn my bedroom wall into an LCD). As most of us aren’t yet fully accustomed with normal HD so to say when streaming, this breakthrough sound really awesome, but at a second glance you realize that you need a way faster connection (“light speed” as Ramesh Sarukkai from Youtube says) than the one you probably have right now and a display to go with it(are there any displays available in regular stores able to handle this resolution?). You would probably end up investing more in streaming 4k video than in a state of the art console system (or a wedding or a car).

Youtube put together an initial playlist of five videos which can be seen in a 4k resolution and if your connection and gear can take it, go right ahead and let us now how it was. I guess that someone could open a 4k theme bar where people could watch youtube vids and have cocktails. I always wanted to watch CC Catch clips at the craziest resolution available.

Via: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20010174-248.html

Turn Your Next Party Into A YouTube “Disco”

Nick Upton — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:35:16 +0000

YouTube has introduced a novel way to find and watch music videos. Dubbed YouTube Discovery (Disco for short) is a pretty snazzy way to whip up a playlist of music videos.

Throw the resulting playlist on a projector, and you’ve instantly got a night of aural and ocular stimulation.

Once the playlist is saved, it pops up in the side of the normal YouTube video browser, making it easy to see video information, favorite videos and see related videos while still having the option to resume the playlist.

I put Liars in and came up with this little playlist

I’ve tried it with a slew of bands, and it nicely brings up related artists and adds them to the mix too.

The playlist doesn’t work well on the average YouTube video. For instance, I got a bunch of results for the band rooster when I tried to make a playlist for all Death Metal Rooster versions.

US Web Users Watched 33 Billion Online Videos in December

J. Matthew Zoss — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:00:54 +0000

More and more evidence is rolling out to prove that the internet is the greatest time-waster mankind has ever created. In the month of December 2009, 178 million internet users in the US watched 33 billion online videos. Of those 33 billion videos, 40% or 13 billion were on YouTube, making it by far the most-watched provider of online video content. The number two site for videos was Hulu, with a mere 3% of the total – of course, that still accounts for 1 billion videos.

YouTube’s 136 million unique visitors watched a staggering 97 videos per user, while Hulu’s 44 million unique viewers watched 23 videos each. The full results of the online video survey can be found here and does not contain any information about online video porn, which I assume accounts for around 80 gazillion online views per day.

Source: Download Squad

YouTube To Microsoft: The HP Slate Sucks

Geoffrey Golden — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:32:23 +0000

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled a new product yesterday at CES 2010 and it’s… a tablet PC? Hey, isn’t Apple supposed to be making one of those? Perhaps in an attempt to beat Apple to the multi-touch punch, Ballmer demonstrated HP’s new slate PC, capable of running Windows 7. They posted a teaser video on YouTube (above), which is currently getting hammered in the comments section:

Vismund: “this amazing device will sell 20 units…”

jewjack: “IM GUNNA BUY TWO! (one when it comes out, and the second to replace the first when it breaks down)”

rhadiem: “This is just another sad case of HP/Microsoft trying to copy Apple and have some of the magic pixie dust rub off on them. What they didn’t show was :20 seconds into the video the slate caught a virus, bluescreened and after a 4 minute reboot the only app for it was the HP logo sizer and a half-baked use of multitouch for Paintbrush.”

SteelVelocity: “boooo!!!”

There are some positive comments as well, along with the usual PC vs. Mac “X ripped off Y” jibber jabber. However, with over 200,000 views and an average rating of 2 stars, it can’t be ALL Mac evangelists down-voting this video… or can it? It’ll be interesting to see what people think of a demonstration that’s longer than 18 seconds.

Gay Marriage Trial To Be Shown On Youtube

Asterios Kokkinos — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:01:14 +0000

California’s federal trial on the constitutionality of Prop 8, a publicly voted state act that banned same-sex marriage, will be broadcast on YouTube.

Chief U.S. District Judge Vaugn Walker introduced the idea several months ago, stating, “I always thought that if people could see how the judiciary really works, they would take a somewhat different view of it.”

The trial won’t be broadcast live to YouTube – federal employees will be operating the cameras and uploading the taped transmissions – but it’s still our first ever look into the federal judicial system. You’d have to be a real nerd to be excited about this, and I am very excited.

I’ll also say that, from a purely tactical standpoint, this move is going to benefit the liberal case more than the conservative case. In the fight for Prop 8, conservatives have routinely tried to keep the names of conservative donors secret, lest those donors face boycotts and backlash. Liberals have hit back, claiming that campaign finance laws are good for democracy – we want to know who’s donating what to whom – and so far Liberals have kept the legal high ground.

I live in Los Angeles, where local mexican restaurant El Cantina faced a boycott when it was revealed that a co-owner had donated to the anti-gay marriage movement. That co-owner had to divest from the company, as they’d lost so much business they nearly went under.

Opponents of cameras in the courtroom state that it’ll lead to witnesses against same-sex marriage will face intimidation and harassment. Which is true, they completely will. But nobody ever said standing up for your convictions was easy.

Source: CNN