I see Rafe Needleman is reporting that YouTube are going to start streaming video in hi-def imminently.
According to Needleman:
YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, speaking at the NewTeeVee Live conference today, confirmed that high-quality YouTube video streams are coming soon…. the service is testing a player that detects the speed of the viewer’s Net connection and serves up higher-quality video if they want it.
Chen also confirmed that YouTube stores the native quality of the originally uploaded video – this is no surprise to iPhone or iPod Touch owners who have a hi-def YouTube service already.
Thanks for the news Tom, that is good news indeed. Google must be providing YouTube some serious bandwidth now.
Well right now youtube.com uses about 200 terabytes of data every day. It comes to about $1,000,000 a month for bandwidth. Talk about alot of money. For all of 2006 youtube.com made $15,000,000. That only comes out to about $3,000,000 in profit. That Sucks.