Looks Like YouTube Is Going Widescreen
While perusing YouTube last night, I noticed the thumbnails for all the YouTube videos had all of a sudden switched from the regular standard dimensions to more of a widescreen size. You can see the change in the screenshot, something Gizmodo noticed, too.
While the rest of the interface hasn’t really changed to take advantage of the shorter thumbnails, and these are widescreen thumbnails of non-widescreen videos, it would seem to indicate that YouTube is finally looking at doing actual widescreen, especially considering devices, like the iPhone, which view YouTube videos on widescreens. It would make sense for YouTube to finally get the player to fit the videos, and not waste space on black bars.
Oh, and when did YouTube start letting you do this:
UPDATE: Looks like I stumbled on a new feature. Details here.
Looks Like YouTube Is Going Widescreen
While perusing YouTube last night, I noticed the thumbnails for all the YouTube videos had all of a sudden switched from the regular standard dimensions to more of a widescreen size.
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Fullscreen YouTube: I’m seeing a new FLV skin at YouTube today… contains a little button for true fullscreen viewing (not just full-window viewing… the browser chrome goes away). Nothing on the YouTube blog yet. Nathan Weinberg has also seen an op…
Trackback by JD on EP | July 19, 2007
did you skin the player yourself?
Comment by ben long | July 19, 2007
“Oh, and when did YouTube start letting you do this:”
Last night.
Comment by Geoff | July 19, 2007
Huh, I found a new feature! Wow.
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