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YouTube to stream 1080p video within a few days

The announcement is another step in YouTube's attempt to class up with high-end, professional-quality content.

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Computing, Home A/V | by Samuel Axon | Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:56PM | 0 comments

YouTube's Hunter Walk revealed at the NewTeeVee Live event that YouTube will be rolling out 1080p FullHD video streams within the next few days with a new widescreen player.

YouTube began offering HD videos up to 720p several months ago, but very few services offer 1080p because of the substantial bandwidth that resolution eats up. Walk said videos are already being re-encoded. It seems that YouTube is serious about providing professional-quality content, not just user-submitted video blogs, home videos, and the like.

We've embedded GigaOM's live NTVL event video below in case this sort of thing piques your interest.

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