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Re: The One Thing I HATE About Youtube

dummy@example.com (Doppelgangergang) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:57:27 +0000

That technical explanation in a nutshell:

"Youtube intentionally shaves off quality to reduce it's operating costs."

Re: The One Thing I HATE About Youtube

dummy@example.com (Lanara) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:55:24 +0000

you make me sound like im stupid XD, but your statement is true. I also understand that youtube is the largest video site on the internet, but seriously >< stage6 (now closed T_T) was much more preferable for me, veoh as well, though i admit youtube has a much larger selection.

Re: The One Thing I HATE About Youtube

dummy@example.com (Doppelgangergang) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:37:22 +0000

Lanara wrote:

the only thing i don't like is bad quality

I'll try to explain why crappy quality:

If you take a magnifying glass to your monitor, you may see tiny colored squares that make up the picture. This tiny squares are called pixels.

Resolution is how many pixels the monitor has. It is measured Width multiplied by height.

Regular PC monitors run at a resolution of 1024x768, sometimes even more. Widescreens like mine run at 1280x800. This high resolution gives the picture a high quality. The lesser the resolution, the crappier it is.

The reason of all this bad quality is that Youtube videos has a pitiful resolution of 320x240. Compared to a monitor, the video has a lesser resolution.

And since YT compresses the video even more to save server storage, it sheds most of the quality.

Re: The One Thing I HATE About Youtube

dummy@example.com (Lanara) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:23:05 +0000

the only thing i don't like is bad quality (still like it though) but i really dont care if they give me a +1 or a -10.....yah....

Re: The One Thing I HATE About Youtube

dummy@example.com (Spyro_Loves_Me) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:01:33 +0000

Yeah, it's alright.
If it really hurts you that bad, just make another account and give the thumbs down a thumbs up. Then it'll be back to being even. :-P

Re: The One Thing I HATE About Youtube

dummy@example.com (bmah) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:56:33 +0000

You shouldn't take ratings too seriously Cynder794. You'd be in for a rough ride if you always become "depressed" by the negative ratings you've got.

Re: The One Thing I HATE About Youtube

dummy@example.com (Doppelgangergang) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:49:53 +0000

The reason why the +1/-1 is to weed out bad comments.

But who cares if I got -1?

If I care about it so much, then I would never go to Engadget.

Re: The One Thing I HATE About Youtube

dummy@example.com (Spyrorocks) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:42:11 +0000

I personally don't use YouTube, but is it really that big of a deal if some random guy -1s a comment by you?

Re: The One Thing I HATE About Youtube

dummy@example.com (DragonPrincess) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:36:16 +0000

*Gasp* How rude is that!I hate some people on YouTube because they wish death on others...Like this one dude...He wished death on Ryan Drummond's 2 MONTH OLD BABY!!!If that's not f****d up, I don't know what is!!!He's the kind of dude that really p****s me off!!

The One Thing I HATE About Youtube

dummy@example.com (Cynder794) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:36:19 +0000

I am currently depressed because some wise guys on youtube think they can critisize my opinions. I made a request to yearofthe and got a -1! FOR REQUESTING!!!!!!! That is the one thing I hate about youtube!!!