youtube quality increase?

[noized77]

It seems people are confusing HQ with HD, both are output at different resoution. HQ is what youtube offers now and looks a little better then the original native video and some can't tell the difference depending on the video, hence the high quality. HD is in pure hi-defintion with max resolution of your device so the output is crystal clear. Youtube used to have that option for a week or so and they took it out for some reason. So right now you're not seeing the video at its best.

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[Pi Guy 3.14]

Yeah I meant to say youtube took off the HQ option. I edited my post.

[coppola77]

I'm so happy to see others had this same issue. My youtube videos looked AMAZING for about a week, and now they're back to crap. I did nothing to change my settings. Frustrating.

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[delacerda]

Change your browser identification to Firefox and you'll see the option for HQ video. I think that the site is auto detecting certain models of BB and is offering all videos as HQ. I still have the HQ/Normal option on my 8330. I can't tell the difference between the videos on my 9700 when the option is there or not. However, if you select normal quality (after setting browser identification to Firefox) you'll see a huge decrease in quality.

[RegE]

Well, after about a year of tolerating poor quality videos and 40 minutes of research on the internet, I stumbled upon this thread. I set my location to Worldwide; I set my optimization page according to how it was mentioned above; I disabled Wi-fi; and clicked the links below the video thumbnails and viewed the videos in HQ.

I'm impressed! Amazing quality! This site is awesome! Thanks guys!

Now, I have a question: What's the deal with YouTube video quality deteriorating while viewing over Wi-fi? It simply doesn't make any sense that viewing over the data network is better than viewing over Wi-fi with the hotspot browser. When using the Wi-fi hotspot browser, video streaming should be smoother than with the BIS network as there's less conduits for the information to travel through. Viewing over Wi-fi should be like watching a video on your laptop, while viewing over the BIS network should be choppy. What's Up? Any ideas?