As the thread title suggests, which video host is best for HD video? Well first of all how about a direct comparison – the same video on all three sites:

Viddyou.com (paid)

Vimeo.com (paid)

Youtube.com (free)

It’s very very close, Viddyou seems to display the video with the most saturation, then Vimeo and then Youtube. Particularly with the red flowers Viddyou seems a bit too much. I would say Vimeo is just slightly sharper than the other two. Apart from that i can see very little difference.

I have to say i am surprised. I’m paying Vimeo for their Plus package^[1] and compared to youtube, i’m wondering if it’s worth it? People over there say “ah yes but what you get over here is a better community“. True enough Youtube is littered with arseholes but i get more views and positive comments on Youtube than i do on Vimeo. So unless Vimeo come up with something come next subscription time then i don’t think i’ll be renewing with them. My main reason for uploading home movies is as an extra backup but also for embedding them on other sites. With Vimeo you only get a set amount of embedded High Definition plays per year. Even after you have paid them. If you need more plays then you pay them again! I don’t think so.

1. you can use Vimeo for free but with limits [↩]

How fooking adorable! Not sure what breed of dog this is, looks a bit like a Chihuahua crossed with a Jack Russell?

Well, i know i only just had that Sony Cybershot but the opportunity arose for a killer camera at a killer price so i went for it. First thing that attracted me to it is it’s zoom range – it goes from 25mm wide to 300mm – it will actually go beyond 300mm to over 500mm by lowering the pixels and on top of that you have digital zoom (not recommended but ok for quick grabs).

The screen resolution is far better than the Cybershot too, images and videos look brilliant on the display and like the Sony it can also shoot HD video in either AHVCD or Mpeg.  I went for the brown version but it also comes in silver, black, blue and red.

Anyhoo, here are my first pics and video taken with it. You know what surprised me?  Usually i open my pictures in photoshop to make aut0 adjustments to levels and curves and i found that the pictures didn’t need adjusting. So apart from the odd crop these pics are how they came out of the camera.

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Much as i love my Canon digital SLR camera and Canon HF100 HD camcorder, sometimes you just want something a bit more compact for casual snaps & clips. But at the same time you don’t want your causal snaps & clips to look like shit either. My previous compact camera was a Sony Cybershot T200 and it’s a brilliant snapper but the video wasn’t great. So i’ve upgraded to a Sony Cybershot T500 which is pretty much the same camera (though it goes from 8 to 10 megapixels) but it gains a 720 High Definition video recorder. Here’s my first test video with the camera:

I think it’s pretty good considering it came from such a tiny compact camera! Obviously it’s no replacement for a dedicated HD camcorder but it’s brilliant for something you can carry everywhere. Oh, and the photo’s ain’t bad either!

Click read more for my review
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I’ve been looking for somewhere to upload both photos and videos. For pix i used Flickr and for videos i used Viddyou and had paid accounts with both. I’ve also tried Vimeo which i like and YouTube which is full of idiotic children leaving idiotic comments, so although HD videos look ok on YouTube, it’s still the a trailertrash video site. So anyway, i found SmugMug! It’s certainly not the cheapest of pix and video hosting solutions but i reckon it’s the best. Your photos are displayed very professionally and you can even sell them through SmugMug. But what really impressed me was their HD video! I’ve uploaded a couple of HD videos and they look amazing on there. Plus you get embed codes so you can embed either dvd quality video or web quality (see below).

Viddyou videos look better embedded i think, however, go to SmugMug and watch the video in full size High Def and you really notice a difference! –> Click Here

Check out my smugmug gallery here: http://elektrobix.smugmug.com/

Click Read More for video comparisons:
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