YouTube to support high-definition videos

By siliconindia   |   Saturday, 14 November 2009, 16:59 IST   |    7 Comments
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YouTube to support high-definition videos
Bangalore: YouTube, the online video unit of Google announced that it will support video playback in the full high-definition format - 1080 pixels, upgrading from the current 720 pixels. After engineers tested its system, YouTube spokesman Chris Dale said the company is not worried about infrastructure problems or higher costs associated with supporting bulkier files. Videos uploaded from regular users will still have a 10-minute limit, although the maximum file size will likely get a boost from two gigabytes. Videos that had already been uploaded at 720 pixels will be automatically re-encoded to play back at the higher resolution.