If you host your own videos, maintaining your video quality is not a problem because you control everything from start to finish.<\/p>\n
However, if you use video sharing sites to host your videos, it’s a different story.\u00a0 Essentially, you upload your video and then give up total control over what the final product is going to look like.\u00a0 Traditionally, video sharing sites will “dumb down” the quality of your video to save on bandwidth costs (after all, YouTube spends an estimated 1 million dollars a day on bandwidth).\u00a0 Thankfully, things are changing.<\/p>\n
Due to ever-improving software code, video sharing sites are now able to host your videos in high quality formats.\u00a0 Sites like Vimeo<\/strong><\/a> and Blip.TV<\/strong><\/a> are leading the way.<\/p>\n Now, the Internet’s largest independent video sharing site, DailyMotion, is joining the mix too.\u00a0 You see, they’ve just released a new high quality video player.<\/p>\n But the only reason I mention this is because they’ve put up a video that shows, head to head, the difference between the “standard” web video formats and the new “high quality” formats.\u00a0 In fact, it’s the best video I’ve seen so far that illustrates the difference.<\/p>\n It’s worth a look and goes a long way in explaining (far better than I can do with words) what these new video formats actually look like.<\/p>\n