With all the advancements on iPhone 4 we still have to view you tube low quality over 3G. My nexus one has an option on the YouTube app to view in HQ over 3G. I'm wondering why apple hasn't implemented this feature to take advantage of iPhone 4 "retina" display. It's pretty disappointing watching blurry low quality video on such a magnificent display.
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New "retina" display and same old crappy YouTube.
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i think the issue is the deal made between YouTube and Apple...
because there's no flash on the iOS, they had to create a downloadable mp4 video file for every youtube vid so that iOS devices can view it natively (which also led to the exploit of downloading youtube vids...) so they'd have to redo the whole process in order to allow HD and such
because there's no flash on the iOS, they had to create a downloadable mp4 video file for every youtube vid so that iOS devices can view it natively (which also led to the exploit of downloading youtube vids...) so they'd have to redo the whole process in order to allow HD and such
The true reason why YouTube videos look bad on the iPhone over any cell network is that they are smaller and lower quality. Thus, less work for the cell towers to send. It is not Apple's fault. They are being forced into it by AT&T and probably other network providers as well.
Give the app "Truveo Video" a shot. It lets you watch high quality videos over the network. You even get YouTube videos in the search results.
