Steve Chen, the co-founder of everyone's favorite Web destination for ten second Family Guy clips and videos of drunken frat boys jumping off of stuff, is looking to implement higher quality video streams, within three months.
According to Gizmodo, Chen acknowledged the potential problems with the new higher fidelity stream: older clips will still look bad (actually, even worse by comparison), buffering will become a larger issue on a site designed to watch clips instantly, and the bandwidth bills may well get out of control.
It's surely an attempt to stay on-top as the world of streaming video steadily becomes more and more crowded. The question at the moment is how much video quality matters to most YouTube viewers. After all, if the site's primary output continues to be goofy sub-30 second videos, who's demanding HD streams?
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