YouTube-Not Much Choice with HD?

YouTube has adapted a new widescreen 6:9 format since November. They are continuing to add new features, such as the ability to watch HD 720p content, turning “out the lights” on some videos, and offering better video quality altogether.

However, there are issues.

First, let me explain to you the levels of “quality:”

Standard, or Normal, what 4:3/6:9 non-HD video starts with

High Quality, If supported by the video uploaded above

HD, which is, well, HD.

The issue is,  any video that’s uploaded in HD is played back as High Quality as default. You can go “HD”, but you can’t go Standard. For someone, like me, who’s running on a 1.5mbps download speed, while running other things, this can sometimes be a problem.This annoys me.

Comon, YouTube, Give all videos all three options, (if possible) by default! Let the user decide what quality he/she wants to watch to begin with! that way, they can actually watch the video smoothly instead of in 5 second intervals, or having to wait half an hour for the freakin’ thing to load.