Youtube may be the king of online videos, but its video quality sucks. You can see it for yourself. Here is a movie that I made in HD that I upladed to Youtube, facebook and Vimeo and see the difference in the quality.
Jewel Thief from Raja Jasti on Vimeo.
I uploaded the same file to all three sites. The difference is day and night. It may be that youtube compromises on the quality since they serve so many more videos. But if you are a film maker then you hate to see the quality effecting user experience. I hope Youtube catches up on the quality front.
Update: Actually Youtube doesn’t play HD version by default. If you click on the HD button on its player, then you can watch the HD version. But the throughput is bad and it buffers like crazy.