All videos have been migrated over to YouTube which offers far more flexibility since YouTube added the following features over the past year:
- High Quality mode (HQ button on bottom right)
- Wide screen format and 720p HD streaming (HD button on the bottom right, when applicable)
- Stereo sound
- Streaming videos to mobile phones (if you have a capable cell phone and a data plan that allows it)
With these changes, YouTube videos now far exceeds the quality of my prior streaming service, even beating my HQ downloads. You can actually watch full screen, streaming 720p HD content that is nearly indistinguishable from the original video. If anyone's interested in the technical specs, check out the
Format and Quality Comparison Table on the YouTube wikipedia page.
For most videos, the changes were minor, such as:
- Adding a banner at the end of the video
- Re-editting to be more YouTube friendly, like reducing the length of the "Mieko vs the Water" and "Symphony of Light" videos
- Title changed to be more attention grabbing or descriptive
In the past, videos were only available to family/friends. Most family/friends don't login to the site, so for many this may be the first time seeing some videos. If you're featured in a video and don't want to be, let me know and I'll see what I can do. On a typical day, my YouTube videos get more views than a typical month on websawin.com. I'll be posting more HD videos in the near future; check the homepage or subscribe to the
RSS Feed to know when they've been posted.
If anyone wants to post their own videos on YouTube and hear more about what I learned in the process, let me know. It took me 4 iterations before I found a process I liked.
My user/channel on YouTube is
Websawin. One benefit of creating a free Google/YouTube account is that you can set your viewing preferences to always show YouTube videos in High Quality mode, regardless of the website they're hosted on. Plus you can rate and comment on other's videos, so don't rule out creating an account just because you don't plan to post videos.
