YouTube goes Widescreen

ChampionLLY · 25th Nov 2008, 06:15 PM

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Over the years we've heard a lot of feedback from you about what you'd like to change about YouTube, and the size of our video player is always top of mind. That's why today we're excited to announce a bigger YouTube player.

We're expanding the width of the page to 960 pixels to better reflect the quality of the videos you create and the screens that you use to watch them. This new, wider player is in a widescreen aspect ratio which we hope will provide you with a cleaner, more powerful viewing experience. And don't worry, your 4:3 aspect ratio videos will play just fine in this new player.

Source: YouTube Blog

Chai · 26th Nov 2008, 01:30 AM

I still hate wide screen format.

Zenphic · 26th Nov 2008, 10:53 AM

That's good news to me now that I only use widescreen monitors

Chai · 26th Nov 2008, 11:10 AM

I have widescreen monitor, but I still hate widescreen.

PsYkHoTiK · 26th Nov 2008, 11:26 AM

I have 2 widescreen monitors and I love widescreen...

Max_87 · 26th Nov 2008, 11:41 AM

I don't have a problem with widescreen (16:10) as long as I have enough vertical resolution.

/me hates 16:9 >: (

Chai · 26th Nov 2008, 12:03 PM

4:3 is the fap for working. 16:9 is good for watching movie. 4:3 works well for gaming too.

Adrian Wong · 26th Nov 2008, 01:42 PM

Well, widescreen gaming is really nice, at least for FPS. Not so good for strategy games.

For work, wide screen has its pros and cons. Widescreen is great if you want to work on a document on one half and have another document open in the second half. Like one half showing Microsoft Word, and the other half showing a PDF document.

But for graphics, 4:3 works best. The lack of vertical space can really hamper productivity.

Chai · 26th Nov 2008, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

For work, wide screen has its pros and cons. Widescreen is great if you want to work on a document on one half and have another document open in the second half. Like one half showing Microsoft Word, and the other half showing a PDF document.

Well, I find it much better to do this on a 4:3 monitor, I can see a lot more documents at a time on a 4:3 than a 16:10. That's why I still prefer 4:3.

As for Excel, I need more resolution, doesn't matter if it's 4:3 or 16:10.

PsYkHoTiK · 26th Nov 2008, 02:00 PM

I rotate my widescreen monitor if I need more vertical resolution. I prefer horizontal space for spreadsheets though...

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