Users of the service to share your videos send thousands of messages to Google are protesting against new interface.

It may be a strange contradiction, but users of Internet are rarely open to changes and new ideas when they are implemented in dedicated or services that users are already accustomed to using the website.

This month, when Microsoft released a new interface Hotmail has been the subject of intense criticism from users. Now is the time to hear complaints from YouTube for having implemented its Internet resource for displaying video in widescreen and images in high definition.

The service now supports videos in the resolution of 1280 x 720. Previously, the widescreen was 480 x 360. Another change is the use of wide format, so changing the format prior to which the millions of users were already accustomed

When a video is displayed 4:3, the black letterbox bars that appear at the sides. The black lines are the main complaints from users of YouTube which are saying that this is uncomfortable.

YouTube uses the Adobe Flash format (previously called “Macromedia Flash”) to provide the content. It is the most popular type of site (with more than 50% of the market in 2006) because of the possibility of hosting any video (except materials protected by copyright, although this material is found in abundance in the system). Hosts a wide variety of films, video clips and homemade materials.

The material found on YouTube can be found in blogs and personal Web sites through mechanisms (API) developed by the site.

Via: Info.