http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt526_pjfhs


360p
480p
TEXTp

[Edited on April 1, 2010 at 7:57 AM. Reason : .]

4/1/2010 7:56:41 AM

it kind of rules, actually

4/1/2010 8:25:41 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plz-bhcHryc

4/1/2010 8:28:52 AM

Quote :

"By using text-only mode, you are saving YouTube $1 a second in bandwidth costs. Click here to go back to regular YouTube and happy April Fools Day!"

I'm wondering about the accuracy of that.

4/1/2010 10:44:26 AM

it appears as if the text is just an overlay on the regular quality feed, so i'd say it's not

4/1/2010 10:46:08 AM

Quote :

"I'm wondering about the accuracy of that."

Are you serious

4/1/2010 10:47:31 AM

^yea... but if we assume there are x number of users on youtube simultaneously - say 50K users. And every one of them watched a second of standard def overlay instead of watching the 1080p stream. Probably saves more than a $1.

[Edited on April 1, 2010 at 10:48 AM. Reason : a]

4/1/2010 10:48:07 AM

........

4/1/2010 11:24:34 AM

Bandwidth vs. on site processing to convert to text

4/1/2010 11:26:19 AM

^I doubt it's on-site. They probably just added a few lines of code to their flashplayer code - hence why it only works in 10+

4/1/2010 11:43:36 AM

wtf are you babbling about?

4/1/2010 12:06:49 PM