Vimeo vs YouTube

[panzerboy]

First the YouTube, took hours to upload and the 720p really looks rubbish. Have to pause to buffer in 720p playback.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y1sGIl_xqYk&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Y1sGIl_xqYk&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

Vimeo took half an hour to upload and you can watch in HD with no pausing/stuttering and its looks about as good as the source video.
<a href="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=20198519&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=20198519&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA</a>

[Sockratease]

I'm on Vimeo now for purely personal reasons.

I had to make a Vimeo Account since youtube now demands that you log in with a google account!  I do not want, nor will I ever have, a google account - In fact...  I boycott google!  I block them with every blocking tool I can get.

So I'm now switching to Vimeo and may never be able to access my youtube account again.

Their loss.

Vimeo's gain!

[Don Whitaker]

I heart Vimeo!  A positive, friendly community and a slick setup for the video player and social features.  The vast majority of the stuff you find there is actually created by the uploader - not recycled from tv or America's Home Video knockoffs.

The Subscribe and Contacts features are great. Subscribe to a few people who's work you like - and to the videos that they like as well. That results in great variety of interesting videos whenever you visit.

http://vimeo.com/donwhitaker