YouTube a few minutes ago announced that they’re officially changing the size and aspect ratio of the standard video player on the site.
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.
For all videos uploaded in the standard 4:3 aspect ratio, they’ll appear inset, but the increasingly more common 16:9 videos will fill all available space.
What do you think… will this increase your YouTube enjoyment factor? Last time we asked, you weren’t overly enthusiastic. Has your opinion changed?
(Via Mashable!.)
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Just noticed this morning and kind of liked it. TV commercials, shows, movies and the like are now using this format and YouTube used to make them smaller just to fit inside “the box” or rather, the usual 4:3 square.
Funny thing, about eras. Our daughter is already showing signs of generation shock. Why just the other day while grabbing some grub at Waffle House one of those old ringy dingy phones on the wall began to clang. In all her 6 years she’s never seen nor heard such a thing.
You should have seen her face when we told her about dialing phone numbers.
Same with the screenage size. Old TV’s and monitors vs. New ones. She also already conceived that if the movie isn’t in HD wide screen – it was made a “long time ago.”
To think, we used to say that having a kid made us feel young.
Not anymore. =O(