Viddyou launches High Bitrate video sharing service

Viddyou already took online video sharing to 1080p... if you were willing to pay. Now, however, the distant YouTube competitor is bringing higher quality to the masses with the launch of its High Bitrate service. The new feature gives users the ability to "share near original-quality video from their digital camcorder or camera without the quality degradation typically seen in online video." We'll let you be the judge on which is which in the comparison shot above.

[sumx4182 Posted Sep 10th 2008 11:48AM]

The right is degraded...too easy...

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 10th 2008 12:03PM]

Yes, but enough about politics - which side of the image above is the re-compressed version?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 10th 2008 12:52PM]

Than banding in the sky on the right is obviously visible at this tiny size. Let alone on a big monitor or a HDTV.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 10th 2008 4:11PM]

The images you see in that comparison are screencaps after transcoding from Viddyou and a commonly used entertainment video portal. We believe in truth in advertising and if you go to www.viddyou.com/hbr you can view the video that was used for that screencap and even download the original (under the Share button) if you want to see the difference between the transcoded version online and the original file.

Be sure to check out the 1080p demo since we just rebuilt the entire player in AS3. If you can maintain a ~1MB/s or better data rate and have a MacBook Pro 2.2GHz or equiv//better you should have little problem with 1080p playback. www.viddyou.com/hd for both 1080p and 720p

[IseWise Posted Sep 10th 2008 6:01PM]

I guessing you work for Viddyou. I have a question about the site's logo. What inspired the creator for the look and feel of the logo? It has quite a distinct look about it.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 10th 2008 6:16PM]

I went to Viddyou. I didn't see any HD video anywhere! Vimeo is way better and you can download the full HD source video.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 11th 2008 6:05PM]

Hi,
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So if you are interested in video sharing or online video marketing, give an eye to this site, it worths it.
Cheers