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YouTube has discretely begun to increase the quality of its Flash-streamed videos, adding a new 480 x 360 version with stereo AAC audio to the standard 320 x 240, mono clip created whenever a user uploads new content.  However, the site has also begun retroactively upgrading certain videos, seemingly intending to provide better quality throughout the site.  Speculation has started that Apple could be - either directly or indirectly - responsible for the upgrade; they previously were integral to Google-owned YouTube moving to the H.264 format. 



An example of the newly encoded footage can be seen