All Entries Tagged With: "youtube"
Is YouTube a New Contender?
With NetFlix, Blockbuster & Hulu battling it out, is a new YouTube contender in the digital movie and TV market? When YouTube started rolling out TV shows and classic movies last year, people wondered what their next move would be. YouTube Movies just opened and it has hundreds of movies loading up as we speak.
YouTube Flash and HTML5 Video
YouTube today started testing a new form of embedding code that would support both Flash and HTML5. Using iframes, the technique will either revert to the familiar Flash plugin or switch to HTML5 depending on the browser and device. It will only force Flash when the video requires features HTML5 can’t yet handle, such as [...]
What’s bigger than 1080p? 4K video comes to YouTube
To view any video in a source resolution greater than 1080p, select “Original” in the video quality pulldown menu (as above) Today at the VidCon 2010 conference, we announced support for videos shot in 4K, meaning that now we support original video resolution from 360p all the way up to 4K. To give some perspective [...]
Two Billion Hits Per Day
VIDEO sharing website YouTube has announced it now gets more than TWO BILLION hits a day. Wow! The figure was revealed as the site celebrates the five year anniversary of its beta software version. YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley said: “I see this great growth opportunity in the online video market and we are positioning ourselves [...]
Instant Viral Star: Greyson Chance
Everyone went crazy this week over the web video of Greyson Chance performing “Paparazzi.” Ellen wanted to meet him so she flew him to her studios in Los Angeles. He told Ellen all about the video and what inspires his music, before giving an unbelievable performance. Click on the Ellen video below. Here’s the original [...]
