Youtube, the most popular Google-owned video sharing portal have recently expanded the size of its video display screen from normal to widescreen view format. Thus watching your favorite movies and videos in widescreen format would be of great fun.
Youtube have came up with its new wider video player which is having aspect ratio of 16:9 widescreen with clean and clear visual experience you can enjoy. You can also see the change in design of Youtube webpage design which is having width of 960px so as to accommodate this new player inside webpage properly and to present videos in bigger size with more clarity, still all videos with 4:3 aspect ratio would be played just fine in this new upgraded youtube player. As of now, all the video files have default embed codes are still the same size as before with a width of 425 px and height of 344 px but one advantage you have is that you can change the video size easily, you just need to edit width and height tags for your embed code for your videos.
You can get more details regarding this update at Youtube blog :
“We are expanding the width of the page to 960 pixels to better reflect the quality of the videos you create and the screens that you use to watch them.”
Youtube recently unveiled its new feature “theatre view” which will enlarges the player and its video screen, centres the video and will fades out the rest of the page surrounding with virtual red curtains giving you a perfect Home Theatre experience.
