High quality, embeddable Michael Jackson clips on YouTube

July 4, 2009 @ 11:57 am

Sometime in the past week, you may have gone to YouTube to check out a few of Michael Jackson’s music videos and realized that most of them on his official YouTube channel are of very low quality. For an official channel representing one of the biggest celebrities of all time, this is disappointing to say the least. Add on top of that the fact that none of the clips on his official channel are embeddable and you may understand why I think the official Michael Jackson YouTube channel sucks (I blame the record company).

Anyway, YouTube (or MJ’s record company) seems to be allowing a brand-new Michael Jackson channel at Michael Jackson Clips that show all of his music videos in high quality (and they’re embeddable too)!

I mean, just compare the high quality video below of “Thriller” with the quality that’s on the official Michael Jackson channel and you’ll instantly see the difference.

Head on over to Michael Jackson Clips to see all of his music videos in high quality.

YouTube puts ugly white titles in embedded videos

February 5, 2009 @ 10:27 am

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This is making my site even uglier than it already is.

Comedy Central’s stupid embed code for video

February 4, 2009 @ 2:19 am

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I just recently posted something with an embedded Comedy Central video clip, and the above screenshot is what the embed code for that video player looked like.

In contrast, below is the embed code for a typical YouTube video. Seriously, why is it so complicated with Comedy Central?

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How to embed HD YouTube videos

December 8, 2008 @ 10:38 am

Jared linked me to a simple page that allows you to embed HD YouTube videos on any page.

By default, YouTube does not [currently] allow embedding of HD YouTube videos. If you wanted to see a particular video in HD, you had to go to the video’s YouTube page and hit “watch in HD”. But if you use this script provided at this webpage here, you can pass this rule and get HD video up and running on your own webpage.

Here’s the “Where the hell is Matt (2008)” video in HD.