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My appetite for better quality web video is growing by the day. Where I used to go to YouTube and easily entertain myself, I find it hard to sit through the terrible quality of its videos these days. Hence I have been on the hunt for compelling video content that isn’t sullied by cheap high compression rates. Through my search I have come to realize that no one is doing this better than Vimeo right now.

Not only do they deliver HD video content flawlessly (thanks to BitGravity) but they are attracting the best of the best who are shooting in HD. I predict we will soon notice the ubiquity of Vimeo embeds increasing steadily, as shooting in HD becomes a pre-requesite for video content. I have been recently addicted to HD streaming video, watching Hulu clips at night and during the day spending entirely too much time on the Vimeo HD Channel.

Chalk Drawing from Joel Endicott on Vimeo.

Above is the video that spurred this post, it’s a simple video shot by a father of his daughters playing with sidewalk chalk, complete with a Sufjan Stevens song to make it even more endearing. But it looks GREAT and that’s what makes this HD revolution so exciting, good quality content is fighting its way to the top, and that can only mean good things for online media.

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