But that has nothing whatsoever to do with aesthetic. I think YouTube is doing a good thing. I think that the more open video is, the better it is for people.

But that has nothing whatsoever to do with aesthetic. I think YouTube is doing a good thing. I think that the more open video is, the better it is for people. My gripe lies entirely with the fact that YouTube is an extremely ugly site, and with video - unlike some things - there are very attractive sites to compare with. Vimeo and Hulu do it right, both the overall aesthetic and the vanishing bar in particular. YouTube makes it so that I would never be able to really use my computer like a television, whereas in Hulu I can get fairly high-resolution video of, say, Arrested Development, and watch it in an environment that's even slightly better than watching it on TV.