YouTube pushes HD video, new landing pages

In a move likely to pique the interest of video news organizations, YouTube also added three new video landing pages, says Thomas Claburn of Informationweek.com

Google’s YouTube has expanded the availability of high-definition video with the launch of an HD video page.

Earlier this month, YouTube began replacing the “watch in high quality” menu option accompanying many videos with a “watch in HD” menu option. In November, it expanded the width of the viewable video page to accommodate the 16:9 aspect ratio of HD videos.

On Thursday, YouTube said that it had added an HD videos area — videos in the “Videos” section now have “HD” as a filtering option to make finding them easier.

In a move likely to pique the interest of video news organizations, YouTube also said that it has added three new video landing pages: youtube.com/news, youtube.com/music, and youtube.com/movies.