YouTube Goes WideScreen
YouTube is continuing their transition from a simple video-sharing website, to a full-circle media experience. That’s to say, YouTube will soon begin providing a full wide-screen mode for their videos.
YouTube, which is owned by web-giant Google, has posted the news on their blog. Their intent is clearly to have users viewing wide-screen content on their television sets as well as computer monitors. Here’s a quote from their blog,
“We’re expanding the width of the page to 960 pixels to better reflect the quality of the videos you create and the screens that you use to watch them,” the posting said. “This new, wider player is in a widescreen aspect ratio which we hope will provide you with a cleaner, more powerful viewing experience.”
Now, videos that are already posted will continue to be displayed in their classic format, however as far as future uploads are concerned, most will be defaulted to the new, wide-screen option.
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