For too long Youtube has been a bastion for crappy quality and 4:3 screen ratio videos; I’m glad they’re finally giving us a better experience (though tricking your browser to trick Youtube to display the widescreen, “HD” video is somewhat klunky).

But man, watching stuff in widescreen AND higher quality is just so nice. Glad to see the other video sites are forcing Youtube’s hand.

EDIT!
So it looks like Youtube implemented this across the board, so everyone know has access to widescreen vids and you no longer need to do the hack I described above. But apparently you can force a higher res version of the video you’re watching (if available) by adding “&fmt=22” (sans quotes) at the end of your movie url.