bugmenot on 28 August 2007
Not just bandwidth. Also because they needed to use the basic H.263 video codec (not H.264 - that one's good) that was available in Flash for maximum browser compatibility. Stage6 has great video thanks to their MPEG4 ASP derived codec (though they probably have great servers and little traffic), but you'll notice you need to install a plugin to display it. Youtube has no such requirements for anything supporting flash.
