is it just me, or has youtube's 720/1080HD quality gone to #%&*$#

I think the results depend on the encoding, when I've used Windows Live Movie Maker 720p then Youtube would make it look like crap, but one of the Sony Vegas encoding schemes I tried looks pretty good.

BTW I posted a couple of screenies from my Porsche Trackday tonight in the screenshot forum:
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3577850.html

So fun.

Their streaming at 1080p sucks. I usually que things up and watch them on our sony google tv in the bedroom though. Could have to do with too little memory or something. 720p usually works well and looks fine though. Weekend nights can be rough.

i record RAW Uncompressed AVI (2m is like 13-14GB). and compress from Sony Vegas to MPEG-4 @ 14MB/sec.

the MPEG4 is Pristine. upload to youtube and its BLAH,.

For the most part, the Porsche's handle and feel better with the simulation steering and new engines.

i had to do some adjusting, but after 6 or so laps i had it down better, the video above was like lap 4.

there were a few turns where i started turning in early anticipating some under steer on the odd banking, to my surprise, no under steer at all so I had to correct/adjust to avoid hitting the inner rumble strip, which in the Porsche is not so forgiving. I rubbed the rumble strip a lil around 1:29ish, and it almost put the car in a spin, good thing Im very proficient at recovering from lost traction.

hmmmm...Turn 10's, Falken Porsche has a different hood than Mine....