YouTube is to roll out high quality video content. Thus far, videos have been tailored for everyone to see, which meant they were made for lower connection speeds and most in 320×240px resolution. Within the next three months, YouTube will experiment with delivering high quality videos by detecting connection speed. Since the increase in video quality and connections speed requirements will mean content buffering for many of YouTube’s users, the experience may prove to be a little different than so far which is why YouTube is going to introduce broadband quality video slowly. Read more on C|NET News.

Although most of the videos on YouTube are quite satisfactory in terms of video quality, there are many cases where I wish the video quality was higher. In fact most videos, when put into full screen mode, look a lot like smudges. On the other hand, one of the things that made YouTube so popular was the fact that even dial-up connections could cope with video content streaming. Will videos uploaded as high quality be also available as low quality videos?

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An announcement on YouTube blog said YouTube design changes are under way. So far there’s only one example of the new look, and apart from layout changes, the new look sports much stronger colors, which users may or may not find attractive. There is much more contrast which is a drastic change from the current look. See for yourself, current and new look:

Other changes:

• Categories will now be found under the “Videos” tab,
• Dropdown menus make for a smoother transition when clicking through popular pages, ie. “Most Viewed,” “Top Favorites,” “Recently Featured,” etc. ,
• Tabs and video browsing pages have a new overall look and feel.

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