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Here, you’ll discover a basic truth about the YouTube app on the iPhone:
Videos look great if you’re connected to the Internet through a Wi-Fi hot spot
or the 3G network. They look not so great if you’re connected over AT&T’s
cellular EDGE network. When you’re on EDGE, you get a completely different
version of the video—smaller, coarser, and grainier. In fact, you may not be
able to get videos to play at all over EDGE.
When you first start playing a video, you get the usual iPhone playback controls,
like », « ¿, the volume slider, and the progress scrubber at the top.
Here again, you can double-tap the screen to magnify the video slightly, just
enough to eliminate the black bars on the sides of the screen (or tap the [
button at the top-right corner to do the same).
The controls fade away after a moment, so they don’t block your view. You can
make them appear and disappear with a single tap on the video.
There are two icons on these controls, however, that don’t also appear when
you’re playing iPod videos. First is the } button, which adds the video you’re
watching to your Bookmarks list, so you won’t have to hunt for it later.
Second is the ¬ button, which pauses the video and sends you to the Mail
app, where a link to the video is pasted into an outgoing message for you.
The Î button at the top-left corner takes you out of the video you’re watching
and back to the list of YouTube videos.
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