Finally! Well done, but this is long overdue. So much overdue as a matter of fact that this should have been done years ago! Companies bickering and bickering, suing and suing stifles our technology from bettering by leaps and bounds. God! we could be Like Star Trek if we really wanted to as a human race. This is not how I envisioned the future as a little kid.

This is great news i think as Sgegax has said it best this is long overdue even with the ads in place at least this way it brings back the control of watchin what u want when you wanr. Kudos Google.

That's how I see it too.. These media corporations are killing our future by their greed.

I can't stand the low res junk on goobtube, but enough people seem to want to save the 320x240 video to tell me that people don't care about quality if the content is there.

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I'm assuming this is US only again...

Originally posted by varnull:

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That's how I see it too.. These media corporations are killing our future by their greed.

I can't stand the low res junk on goobtube, but enough people seem to want to save the 320x240 video to tell me that people don't care about quality if the content is there.

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It's a start though, this is a good thing jan you sexy little beast you. x

:-p

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This is all the big media companies have been asking. You want to use the content we spend money to make, thats cool. Just compensate us for it. Its pretty fair all around.

If Hulu can generate a profit, I think its the ideal business model for streaming commercial content over the net. Really I wish over the air tv would accept the Hulu model of having way more commercial breaks, but each one is only like 15 seconds rather than having those huge 1 minute+ breaks where you can scan all the TV channels and come back and find its still showing commercials.

ummm... Personally if that came to be true, then i would just exit youtube when the the show is finished, instead of watching the ending ad.

Originally posted by Leningrad:

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ummm... Personally if that came to be true, then i would just exit youtube when the the show is finished, instead of watching the ending ad.

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Have you ever heard of SplicD ?

http://www.splicd.com/

It enables you to post youtube viedos to a url starting at a said time and finishing at another given time, what adds?

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what is splicd?

Splicd allows you to isolate an interesting tidbit from a YouTube video and provides you with a link to share it with your family, friends, and colleagues.

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Originally posted by varnull:

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I can't stand the low res junk on goobtube, but enough people seem to want to save the 320x240 video to tell me that people don't care about quality if the content is there.

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While this is a start, I know what you mean about the low-res. I can't watch youtube now as it is. I didn't buy this hi-def monitor to sit back and watch pixelated low-res youtube.
I'll pay attention when this (hopefully) evolves into streaming 720p.

I presume that you cannot fast forward through the commercials ?

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Streaming high quality videos probably won't catch on for at least a short while. The commercials aren't too bad, there's tons of stuff to do on your computer while you wait for it...you don't actually sit through the ads.