• New York Post, Wednesday, October 17, 2007 10:46 AM

Barry Diller and IAC/InterActiveCorp will start distributing user-generated videos in HD this week through Vimeo, its video-sharing site. The resolution comes in at the high-def standard 1280 pixels by 720 pixels, four times as clear as the 320x240 typically found on video sharing sites like YouTube.

Not that you can't find high-def videos elsewhere on the Web. Movie trailers, for example, have been streamable in HD for a long time, as has other professionally produced content. However, Vimeo is the first-known Web site to make HD quality user generated content available.

Will HD quality video be enough to lure the many millions of users found on YouTube? Probably not, but founder Jakob Lodwick says the investment in HD is worth it because many users are amateur filmmakers, not fans of TV shows uploading illegal content. He declares: "Our audience completely rejects the notion that Web video needs to be a lower quality than television." This should make Vimeo users happy. The IAC site is much smaller than YouTube, posting 900,000 uniques and 300,000 videos.

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