YouTube’s Chad Hurley: “We Have The Largest Library of HD Video On The Internet.”
January 30, 2009 at 13:02 PM EST
It is early days for HD video on the Web, but already we are starting to see jostling for position in this nascent part of the Web video market. Less than two months after YouTube started streaming high-definition videos in a major way, CEO Chad Hurley is now claiming bragging rights as the biggest HD video site on the Web. At a panel today at Davos , he said: We feel we have the largest library of HD video on the Internet. If you look at YouTube's HD category , five pages with about 100 HD videos come up. Hulu's HD gallery , in contrast, only has six videos. Vimeo's HD gallery has 178 videos. But CBS has at least 1,000 (and it is not clear how many of those are on YouTube in HD quality).