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- nrox653, on 11/07/2008, -0/+29Now if they can just bump it up to SD quality...
- inactive, on 11/06/2008, -2/+28hmmm trying to keep up with Hulu?
- minnepinne, on 11/07/2008, -0/+25Good for you Youtube. Hopefully will this be a completely different section with high quality and kick-ass interface. Youtube needs a makeover.
- nrox653, on 11/07/2008, -1/+18Resolution estimate FAIL
- MookiBlaylock, on 11/06/2008, -1/+17A little to late I thinks, unless they bump up the video quality like 1000%. Hulu, Fancast, and Netflix kind of have that market covered.
- TheFounder, on 11/07/2008, -0/+9we've been doing this for a year with VEOH and Hulu ....
- inactive, on 11/07/2008, -0/+9yt is gonna bury hulu if they start showing tv shows and movies
- rssman, on 11/07/2008, -2/+10I hope YouTube will offer this for outside of the US unlike Hulu.
- Deeh, on 11/07/2008, -0/+7Unless youtube is planning to play movies in tiny sideways players.
- bluemist, on 11/07/2008, -0/+7Don't bet on it.
- ZaZ2137, on 11/07/2008, -0/+7They better offer low res and 480p (or better) streaming like hulu or they'll never compete.
- timothycrash01, on 11/07/2008, -4/+9***** ads. Ad based programming is obsolete. HBO figured it out 2 decades ago, and so has Showtime. Between the two of them - they offer better programming than all the other networks combined.
I would rather pay $50.00 a month for a couple of stations that I actually watch and with a bit of product placement, than $30.00 for a bunch of ***** stations (90% of which I've never watched), with more ads than content.
It's about time that people realized...you don't need 17 minutes of ads per 1 hour of programming to put profitable tv shows on the air. On-demand, and subsciption based TV should be the future business model. Gah!
For proof - these are some of the shows I'm talking about: Deadwood, The Wire, The Sopranos, Dexter, Californication, Weeds, Six Feet Under, Curb your Enthusiasm, Entourage, Brotherhood, This American Life, Real Time with Bill Maher, Band of Brothers. I mean, is there any question who's got their ***** together? - steger, on 11/07/2008, -0/+5erm, have you heard of hulu.com?
- djmccormick, on 11/06/2008, -6/+11I personally have no problem sitting through advertisements similar in length to that which we're used to on traditional television. I want these guys to be rewarded for their efforts in putting their content online. What I don't want is some sort of obtrusive DRM-laden piece of crap. I'm sure we'll all be looking at Google to see how successfully they can make the content profitable and still accessible.
- jonglebeats, on 11/07/2008, -2/+7Aw crap I have a feeling I'm going to see more "this video is not available in your country," BS........... WHY WAS I BORN CANADIAN!?
Chinese youtube (youku.com) already has full moves :3 - ExRe, on 11/07/2008, -0/+4Honestly, what Youtube needs to do is get the crap off of it's site, or at least make a better rating system and make the crap clips harder to find. For every good clip there are 1000 bad ones and trying to search for that one good one is difficult.
Oh, and fix your player, I've never been able to even semi-accurately move the position forward or back (usually the damned thing snaps back to where it was or even further back if I go ahead). - rssman, on 11/07/2008, -1/+4Depends on your connection but you probably won't wait more than 10 seconds.
- kitsua, on 11/07/2008, -0/+3There's a reason Hulu gets fewer hits - it's only available in the US.
- ZaZ2137, on 11/07/2008, -0/+3Too bad I can't ***** read chinese.
- stuffradio, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2Yeah, they're trying to keep up with American only viewers being allowed to watch content. !@$%%@&*
- inactive, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2Bittorent is universal. To hell with this *****.
- henismightier, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2Hopefully they host all of the movies on the servers in NYC that are apparently running on a 56k line.
- domness, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1Old news on Digg, and YouTube are pretty late in line too.
- Mosheiken, on 11/07/2008, -3/+4how many hours of buffering will it take me to watch??
- inactive, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1I've been a fan of Hulu since it launched. Iv'e been going there for tv shows almost exclusively. Then I tried to watch a movie on it. Wow, the ads were ridiculous. In a one and a half hour movie, there were 13 commercial breaks. And it was the same commercial 13 times. This is not counting the ads right before and after the film. I just felt that it wasn't worth it. I know dozens of sites I can watch divx quality movies streaming in my browser, without interruption. I admit, Hulu is awesome for TV, but for feature films, they still have some work to do.
- timothycrash01, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1Oh yeah - I use Hulu all the time. It's a good start - but it's still not a profitable business model. It's not a stable source of revenue for networks. If you think a network could put out a show like Heroes (+40 other shows) with the revenues from online streaming, well, it's just not possible.
Once they start losing massive ad revenue due to sites like Hulu, you can be sure the whole format will change, and you'll be back to ad mania. Unless they go the HBO route. - inactive, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1Ok do that. The rest of us will save quite a bit of COLD cash as we sit at home and don't have to waste gas and time at a rental store.
- Betrayer, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1if that were true we would all be driving model T fords... because ford had the market covered ONCE.
- arunforce, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1Widescreen format would be nice too.
- ZombieSociety, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1Because there aren't already movies on YouTube?
- AzureRise, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1Watching a movie on that tiny ass screen? No thanks. I'm sticking to hulu.com
- FishHammer, on 11/07/2008, -2/+3If I wanted to watch movies with intrusive commercials that stretch the runtime by a half hour and come at the worst times, I'd turn the TV on. I'll stick with renting thank you very much.
- Hillbert, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1I've been a fan for HULU for some time now. The feature film content could be better but the buffering time,advertisement time and video quality is impressive for what it is. Will be interesting to see if Youtube can do something similar, and to what kind of content they will offer..
- BrendanSheehan, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1Too late? Not a chance.
- CalcProgrammer1, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1I wouldn't mind ads as long as the content was free to watch. If it was some kind of subscription service, no way.
- Genma, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1it's not really youtube's fault, the area is just massively oversold.
- ban485, on 11/07/2008, -0/+0Its about time. Its amazing how slow they've been to enter this arena.
- yetAnotherCroc, on 11/07/2008, -1/+1I swear it's not a rickroll: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAYVfmSig0I
- BlueTroll, on 11/07/2008, -0/+0/sarcasm
- jigallo159, on 11/07/2008, -1/+0About time! Lets transition it to porn and YouTube will rule the web!
- jigallo159, on 11/07/2008, -1/+0Exactly, that's why they want to transition to this..... Lame!! shouldn't have deleted all of those shows and movies uploaded to it. YouTube has been replaced in this field.
- stuffradio, on 11/07/2008, -2/+1Same with Youtube Videos...
- jigallo159, on 11/07/2008, -2/+0Plus!! You can always go full screen.
- flarn2006, on 11/07/2008, -4/+1"They declined to specify which ad unit Google prefers--whether it's prerolls or postrolls or something else..."
Just as long as there are no rickrolls!
But seriously, I hope they use postrolls. That way I can watch the movie and then close it out when the ads start! - WatchDragon, on 11/07/2008, -10/+4watching a movie in 230 x 240, no thanks.
- jigallo159, on 11/07/2008, -9/+1HAHAHA sucks for you! But true, then again I couldn't give a damn as I am within the states.
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