YouTube finally plays HD videos for real

Finally, the much awaited HD option is now available in YouTube. There were quite a few reports about YouTube adding high quality videos but not many thought that they would add HD option so soon. And now here it is.

Doing a search for ‘HD’ in YouTube will show you some videos that were uploaded in that format and from now on when you try to upload a clip to YouTube, you will see the HD upload option there. The HD playback is not the default option, you will have to specifically switch to HD mode (watch in HD) to see the videos in high quality. The normal quality YouTube videos are played at 320×180, 25fps and in mono audio while YouTube HD videos are seems to playing at 1280×720, full frame rate and AAC stereo audio.

Also I can’t seem to be able to embed a HD video from YouTube in my blog yet, perhaps we will have to wait for sometime before we could do that.

via NewTeeVee