Youtube doubles maximum file upload size!

So in 2008 it was 100MB per file. They then rightly upped that to 1GB with the advent of their "HD" option that was much higher resolution than before, and just right now its been upped again to 2GB. That's MASSIVE for a 10min 59s video! Granted that with widescreen 720p HD, files can be big, but I myself have never even touched the 1GB ceiling even with my longer 18 min HD videos it was around 400MB max! I can't imagine how any normal YouTuber could use all of even 1GB. Perhaps 1080p support is on the way? That would use more bandwidth and need the MB to make up the added resolution... but at this moment with 720p being the maximum supported resolution on YouTube, the extra size for an 11min video is all a bit pointless! Seems like a massive waste of Internet bandwidth to me. Especially since YouTube re-encodes uploaded video files again on their servers before anyone can watch it anyway, so why transfer such big files to them in the 1st place only to have them cut it all out again.

Mind you, those poor unfortunate individuals who don't know how / can't be bothered to learn how or perhaps are just to plain lazy to re-encode their footage to more efficient codecs will finally be able to upload their works in their raw space hogging wasteful formats. Big whoop...

BTW: I see YouTube have now bestowed upon me an INSANE 20GB as my own single video file upload limit. Which I can not imagine ever using.

Thanks for nothing! I'd be way happier if they let me have the option to keep my channel page in the current layout than force me to migrate to their newfangled channel format... which I entirely despise... but I'll save that for another day.

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