YouTube announced officially of making videos available in High Definition. Well the demand of high defination has been around for ages, its quite annoying once you spend a ridiculous amount of bandwidth to stream a video and the quality turns out to be total turn off. So keeping that in view YouTube has taken an initiative to offer videos in HD now remember when you ask for more quality you have to pump in more bandwith and for me on a 1MB connection its was quite slow to stream in an HD video. A good example to test is to watch “Where the hell is Matt” or you can simple search on YouTube using HD as the keyword.

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Received this info via a comment, looks like another intersting service is on the block “YouTubeVideoConverter“.

As the name says it YouTube Video converter is a service that helps you download any youtube or any online video into one of the six formats they support. You can convert a youTube video into : (more…)

One issue we face on regular bases: “we have a file which is an xyz format and we need to convert it into another format a good example Microsoft Word 2008 files into office 97 or it could be converting a MPEG into MOV or WMV. It’s a frustrating task to find converters to do this and for every file format you need its specific converter. So keeping this frustration in mind we found a very interesting free service called Youconverit.

Youconverit claims to be the world’s first most complete file & units conversion service which is ofcourse free of charge. No doubt they do support a long list of formats that include video formats like MPEG conversions, RM conversions, WMV conversions, RV conversions, MOV conversions and many more video formats. Similarly there are various audio formats which include MP3 conversions, WAV conversions ,RA conversions and so on. There is also support for document formats including DOC,PDF,ODG,ODP,EPS and various other formats conversion and lastly there is a huge support for image formats conversions like jpeg, tiff, png, gif …

How does the service works
Its quite simple to convert files all you have to do is provide the file you want to convert (up to 5 files simultaneously) provide the format you want to convert to enter you name & email and hit the convert button.
Apart from that youconvert it also provides two other facilities.

• Convert online videos to any video format you want
• Send big files
• Online Unit Conversion Tool

Convert online video or audio into any format and save it:
This service is another exciting tool, to save flv files from sites like Youtube, to your desktop never got better. With the help of youConverit one can simply provide the URL of the video and then convert that video to any video format you want and save it to your local computer. The service works like a charm but you do need a good internet speed and a little patience as it’s a bit slow in conversion.

Send big files
Apart from file conversions you can also send 100MB of file via youConvertit.

Online Unit Conversion Tool
With youconvertit.com, the user can perform calculations for conversion . An example can me the conversion of Kilograms to grams .The various formats supported include inch, centigal and Galileo.

• Select the category of conversion, for example area, torque.
• Enter the quantity in numbers
• Select the source format and the destination format
• Click the convert it button to display the results

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