Poll: Would you pay YouTube to serve higher resolution versions of your videos?
YouTube offers hosting your videos online for free. Would you pay them money to host and serve higher resolution versions of your videos?
Say you have a video podcast that you produce daily - and you want to save on hosting by putting those videos on YouTube. You can do that right now, for free, but the quality of the video that is actually served (even if you upload a really high quality clip), is less than desirable to anyone that cares about the quality of their picture.
So, would you pay YouTube? Or anyone else for that matter?
Mark Cuban recently wrote about Web video and HDTV and while I see where he is coming from, I’m not necessarily looking for services like YouTube to host and serve HD quality video. That could get extremely expensive. However, as I commented on his blog, I wouldn’t mind seeing incremental updates to the quality of the videos being served by the YouTubes of the world, even if it meant that came at a small cost.
What do you think?
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Blip.tv serves the original files as well as a Flash version, they also offer the option of adding ads to your videos. I believe Revver does the same thing.
Blip.tv works perfectly for me, they actually give you an FTP, so you put the video file there, 10 minutes later it’s on their site, you edit the text to go with it, select Original or Flash and you make one click and it’ll post it to your WordPress blog. It doesn’t get any easier.
Josue Salazar on November 29th, 2006 1:44 pm
To answer the original question, no I would not pay YouTube/Google.
Josue Salazar on November 29th, 2006 2:00 pm
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I would pay… depending on the price and the service.
Everyone pays flickr for photo hosting, it’s pretty much the same thing.
kristin on November 29th, 2006 2:04 pm
Josue: I’ve played with Revver, but not Blip. I’ll have to try it out.
Kristin: Great point!
Colin D. Devroe on November 29th, 2006 2:13 pm