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Does the epic have hq you tube?

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vertcobra99

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So I have been hearing mixed reviews about this does the epic have high quality you tube? Many people are saying it doesn't and others are saying that it is an option under settings that you have to enable to see the vids in HD. Does anyone know?
 
yes it does just like the older basic youtube app, you have to press menu while watching a video, it should say more all the way to the right and it will say watch in high quality, all android phones are able to do that, it's just some HTC phones have the hq on the bar
 
So-Low Da Don said:
yes it does just like the older basic youtube app, you have to press menu while watching a video, it should say more all the way to the right and it will say watch in high quality, all android phones are able to do that, it's just some HTC phones have the hq on the bar
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Do you have to do that every time you watch a video? Cause that would be annoying.
 
Defaults to HQ on wifi and normal on 3g. Not sure on 4G (presumably HQ). You can go to menu, and turn on HQ manually. But yes, there are other youtube apk's out there that work
 
I'm curious as to why HQ would be needed on a screen that's only 4"? Does 480 look that bad on a phone? Not trying to cause trouble or anything, I'm genuinely asking these questions. I didn't think 720p made much of a difference until you got to bigger screen sizes (like a 17"+ PC monitor)?
 
kristv said:
I'm curious as to why HQ would be needed on a screen that's only 4"? Does 480 look that bad on a phone? Not trying to cause trouble or anything, I'm genuinely asking these questions. I didn't think 720p made much of a difference until you got to bigger screen sizes (like a 17"+ PC monitor)?
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It makes a huge difference on the Moment actually... videos go from looking like trash with really low resolution to being sharp and clear in HQ. So yes HQ is needed.
 
Adrift said:
It makes a huge difference on the Moment actually... videos go from looking like trash with really low resolution to being sharp and clear in HQ. So yes HQ is needed.
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Could that be due to the lesser hardware in the Moment though? The screen and video processing power of the Epic would surely improve the quality of vids? The reason I mention this is because my laptop has fairly poor video quality compared to my PC when it comes to standard def videos (and my laptop isn't a slouch, but it's disappointing when it comes to viewing DVD's/youtube vids). The hardware and screens are very different, so this would make sense to me. Surely the Epic would handle vids better than the Moment does?
 
kristv said:
Could that be due to the lesser hardware in the Moment though? The screen and video processing power of the Epic would surely improve the quality of vids? The reason I mention this is because my laptop has fairly poor video quality compared to my PC when it comes to standard def videos (and my laptop isn't a slouch, but it's disappointing when it comes to viewing DVD's/youtube vids). The hardware and screens are very different, so this would make sense to me. Surely the Epic would handle vids better than the Moment does?
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No, it is not because of hardware, it is because of the stock youtube app itself. It seems to have been designed to primarily play a youtube video in very very low resolution/quality so that it plays quickly and smoothly. When you tell it to play in HQ, you basically are telling it to play the videos in the highest resolution possible and that you don't mind if it takes it longer to load the video than it would in SQ. It may also be that the app is trying to choose lower bandwidth over higher. Hardware doesn't seem to be a factor in the app always playing in lower quality initially.
 
ranova said:
Defaults to HQ on wifi and normal on 3g. Not sure on 4G (presumably HQ). You can go to menu, and turn on HQ manually. But yes, there are other youtube apk's out there that work
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I wish people that don't know the answer would stop making things up. There is no manual option to turn on youtube HQ.
 
vertcobra99 said:
how do you know this?
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I would like to know this as well.

This would be the first time an Android phone didn't have the option of using Youtube HQ, even G1 could do so.

Unless of course, it was on Youtube HQ permanently and there was no idication of it, then maybe this would make a bit more sense?
 
Adrift said:
No, it is not because of hardware, it is because of the stock youtube app itself. It seems to have been designed to primarily play a youtube video in very very low resolution/quality so that it plays quickly and smoothly. When you tell it to play in HQ, you basically are telling it to play the videos in the highest resolution possible and that you don't mind if it takes it longer to load the video than it would in SQ. It may also be that the app is trying to choose lower bandwidth over higher. Hardware doesn't seem to be a factor in the app always playing in lower quality initially.
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Ahhh...okay, that makes sense. Thanks for clearing that up! :)
 
rasstar said:
I wish people that don't know the answer would stop making things up. There is no manual option to turn on youtube HQ.
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If you see the vid above, exactly as i said, you can watch youtube videos in HQ, even though it's not the actual "YouTube HQ" app
 
rasstar said:
There is no manual option to turn on youtube HQ.
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actually, that's what you said. and, you're wrong. suck it up chief.

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nevermind, you're a different person.

Well, I don't see what the big deal is. Just because you have hit 2 buttons instead of 1 to do the "exact" same thing, it shouldn't be a dealbreaker.
 
xXSecretAgentXx said:
All galaxy s phones use stock youtube app and has HQ options. Looks at the vibrant and captivate forums before you try to correct some1...
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How hard is it to Google?

Here you go YouTube HQ apk file for any Android phone:

YouTube APK

Link says Evo blah blah blah, works just fine on the Moment and any other Android phone, it's a apk, not phone specific.
 
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