Youtube has officially enabled High Quality in embedded videos. The new embedded player sports a little HQ button in the expandable menu, which is strangely absent from Youtube’s on-site player.
One can only assume that they decided they were ready for the blast of traffic that will certainly result from the huge amount of embedded high-quality videos to come. Doubtless the stream pipe has to be a lot fatter for the HQ videos, but advances in compression efficacy have ensured that doubling the image quality doesn’t double the size of the video.
