YoutubeHD
YouTube has long been anticipated to release high definition video playback, and they’re now starting to test out real HD quality videos, The new format could be a big jump for YouTube, as the video size is similar to H.264 encoded mp4 files in the iTunes Store which size is over 80MB.
The new playback looks clean and professional in the widescreen format (1280×720) and seems like real HD 720p video. Formerly YouTube’s high quality video maximum resolution was at 480×360, to do so, viewers must add “&fmt=18″ to the end of a YouTube video’s url. Now to watch the 720p video format the trick is similar to that, simply by adding “&fmt=22″ to the end of the video URL
Currently there’s no view full screen option to YouTube embed technology for HD videos, but you can toggle it on from the Google service’s hosted video page. While these videos will result in slower loading and will trigger problems getting the clip to display on older hardware, it requires powerful PCs for smooth playback.
Here’s examples of an HD embed video on YouTube from wired:
and here’s the standard video playback
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