Anyway, I talked to Aaron about it, and the 160k number is complete bunk. Compete’s numbers are so off as to be nearly irrelevant.

They did… at 140K users! And dropped like a stone. That means their site is crap.

@DaveS – Well, yeah, everyone has to start somewhere.

@23/Ridonculous – I believe that’s an unfair comparison. The common SD formats have a lot of information if they’re using their native compression, but then again miniDV footage cannot be streamed without significant processing (compression). Either way, you have to make sacrifices with streaming video, so it’s relative. Apple’s HD videos aren’t quite set up to stream – you just download it and if you can play it before it’s done downloading then you’re in luck.

(Technically, I think you’re getting a lot of compression in HD *anything*, unless you’re watching direct off of a BluRay disc or something. Uncompressed HD is HUGE – see how much space you need if you’re editing several hours of footage pulled from P2 cards, for instance.)

p.s. this HD video is really cool.

So it’s a big picture full of compression artifacts. This makes it work on everybody’s computer but it isn’t really HD quality given it has less real information in it than several common SD formats.

Comparing it to an HD trailer from Apple makes my point more clearly (e.g.: http://movies.a...gnette_720p.mov).

Granted not everyone has the horsepower or bandwidth to watch Apple’s HD trailers but they use the HD name appropriately whereas in this case I think we are diluting its real meaning and value.

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6K people last month… down from 140K high? PATHETIC!

Like all new technology it only gets better as the hardware gets better. Not all can play with HD yet, but for those that are leaders in pushing technology forward Viddyou’s offering is the best for consumer level personal video.

Viddyou is 100% real 1080p and 720p and http://vy-s307..../1205917837.mov is the link to the 1080p clip I put together off a Canon HG10 if you want to see the original 1080p file…

Vimeo doesn’t offer HD embeds period. You *have* to view the HD content on-site. I suspect that’s due to sponsorships and advertising supported deals which isn’t part of the Viddyou model.

As always Aaron and I are very approachable and receptive to all feedback from the funny comments about star shooting phallic logos to the comments doubters and the lovers. No worries here.

@Nina: They were, until today. :]

@Jeff: We offer some things that Vimeo doesn’t. For instance you can record from a webcam, view videos on your iPhone, video replies, integration with Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, 1080p HD, there’s absolutely no advertising, and no monthly cap on uploaded videos.

@Ridonculous: Our 720p videos have 10x the bitrate of a YouTube video, and 1080p videos are even higher. We also use a different codec (VP6-S vs. YouTube’s h.263) which yields even higher visual results. Viddyou HD is the real deal.

@Jeff: You’re right, 1080 will need a newer computer (probably something with a dual core), but it plays fine on both my 2.4 MacBook Pro and my <$500 dual core Lenevo PC at my home on a 4MB residential Comcast connection, so it’s definitely doable at the consumer level.

You need to learn the difference between the size of the player (as rendered on the page) and the resolution of the video. The player size is set in the html code of the web page and is independent of the video resolution.

The player is small, yes, but if you expand it to full-screen you’ll see that it’s very high resolution. I don’t doubt their claim that their 720p is 720p.

– This company has no moat to protect their business model

1080 is an answer to a question no one is asking. I’m running a 2.4Ghz imac and 16mbps comcast connection, and it stutters like crazy. It also buffers a lot, which makes me wonder if S3 is capable of delivering the video fast enough. If I can’t run it on my setup, most other people can’t either.

@Ridonculous:

You need to hit the full-screen button. They are using a small player so you can’t really see the full resolution there. Hit full-screen and it looks really good.