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Dear... Winter Anime/Manga 2009/10-kun: http://wp.me/pvtOU-18P
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And it's difficult to depict realistic personalities when there's supernatural stuff that influenced the characters... damn.
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It's so very hard to stay out of cliches while writing a romance...
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I keep thinking on how to change the relationships between the 3 characters in my novel... it should be more realistic than this...
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Just a few more days left until I can find discounted pink and heart items :)
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http://twitpic.com/123j21 - And for the second time since I got the game, I bested one of my first night high scores in We Cheer 2 D:
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http://twitpic.com/123iu2 - Got another A+ in We Cheer 2. This time on Beat It - Intermediate.
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FUCKING. POWER TRIP IN MY BUILDING. And I was just about to crap out too. Fucking annoying piece of faggotry.
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@RynoXD ...yeah it's that one.
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@woxxy isn't that about some older guy who suddenly meets his sister who's like 10 yrs younger than him?
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I read Koi Kaze, and you should read it too.
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@kurogane_s Yeah, kind of refreshing.
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Fuck, Lotte no Omocha is fucking awesome. Needs more chapters GODDAMNIT.
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This is soooooo up @shinn87's alley. Sexy loli outfit is sexy... http://twitpic.com/122wdx #lottenoomocha
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geez, even Ah! My Goddess is turning in to a shounen manga. Is everyone that desperate nowadays?!
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youtube gone widescreen
Posted: November 21, 2008 at 9:09 am in Games/Informatics.. Tagged with: , .
Written by guorbatschow - Bio:
THAT'S NO MOON!

Something weird happened, when I followed a digg link. I noticed that all the YouTube videos appeared in a widescreen format…?!

It’s true that some sites already report that there are widescreen thumbnails on YouTube already, but they are just speculating about whether widescreen will be incorporated now.

However, this is what I saw, when I watched this video.

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Old 4:3 videos are displayed on a widescreen as well:

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Some pseudo widescreen videos, which were submitted in a 4:3 format with black borders on top and bottom, look like this:

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I wondered about how that happened. I use Opera on a MacBook with 1280×800 screen resolution.

So I tested it on Safari:

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Doesn’t seem to work, does it?

Firefox doesn’t show widescreen either:

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I thought it was an Opera thing, so I tried it on my Windows PC, running Opera as browser. I can’t get the same effect there. Not even when I changed the screen resolution to 1280×800 and restarted Opera.

I also asked a few more people. But nobody seems to have a clue. What’s going on?

edit: I deleted the cookies on Opera, and the widescreen is gone… and it didn’t come back when I signed into my YouTube account…

A wild guess is that they randomly distributed cookies to test widescreen on a few people before they roll out for everybody. Time will tell what YouTube is up to…

edit2: I ended up finding out how to enable widescreen mode. Continue reading here!

  • Latest posts:

    • 8 Responses to “youtube gone widescreen”

    1. woxxy says:
      November 21, 2008 at 12:31 pm

      YouTobe pls

      Reply
    2. YouTube Goes Wide says:
      November 25, 2008 at 5:58 am

      [...] YouTube videos have been spotted before now and could be enabled using a tag in the video’s URL, but this seems to be the [...]

      Reply
    3. YouTube Goes Wide | American News World - News And Technology says:
      November 25, 2008 at 7:01 am

      [...] YouTube videos have been spotted before now and could be enabled using a tag in the video’s URL, but this seems to be the [...]

      Reply
    4. YouTube passe au format large 16:9 says:
      November 25, 2008 at 7:19 am

      [...] format large avait déjà été utilisé quelquefois par YouTube mais jamais par defaut. C’est sans doute liee a l’annonce faite [...]

      Reply
    5. Ajax Girl » Blog Archive » YouTube Goes Wide says:
      November 25, 2008 at 7:25 am

      [...] YouTube videos have been spotted before now and could be enabled using a tag in the video’s URL, but this seems to be the [...]

      Reply
    6. YouTube Goes Widescreen « The Cords of Billroth says:
      November 25, 2008 at 7:30 am

      [...] YouTube videos have been spotted before now and could be enabled using a tag in the video’s URL, but this seems to be the first [...]

      Reply
    7. dix says:
      November 25, 2008 at 1:42 pm

      yo youtube widescreen baby!

      i cant wait see imported asian dvds on youtube widescreen!
      soo hard findin’ them ’round here, no black market…………..

      adult dvds, should i say……

      Reply
    8. YouTube Goes Wide | News Information Technology says:
      November 26, 2008 at 9:01 am

      [...] YouTube videos have been spotted before now and could be enabled using a tag in the video’s URL, but this seems to be the [...]

      Reply

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