YouTube has been well known to have crappy quality videos but it still survives will lurking under the shadows are sites such as Revver and Blip.tv produce amazing quality videos without the viewers. Now that's all about to change. Steve Chen, the co-founder of YouTube, announced November 14 2007 that a high-quality YouTube would be in the near future of their business plan. As little of you know, YouTube's goal has been to stream video to everybody with an internet connection but with high quality videos that wouldn't be possible. That's why they are testing a player that will recognize a users internet connection and decide whether or not to stream low or high quality videos.
Steve Chen has said the currrent quality of YouTube has been "good enough" until now, but that's just bogus as the proof is right there at their website. The projected wait time for the new rollout is about 3 months but really it won't make much diffeence as the majority of videos submitted to YouTube are poor to begin with. The brilliant thing YouTube did though was they've been storing the original quality of the videos to begin with. This means, you will never see a video compressed again, that is, until a better format comes out. In any case, this improvement will shut out all the rest of the other sites as YouTube will have it all.