On December 4, 2008, Youtube quietly added the option to watch videos in high definition (HD) without the need for URL hacks. On any uploaded videos that are wider than 720 pixels, users will see a new option to "watch in HD" where the "watch in high quality" option usually appears.
The hack in question is similar to the one that was first used to toggle on the "high quality" mode. It is done simply by adding &fmt=22 to the end of the video URL in your browser's address bar.
In addition to the quality change in the player, YouTube has updated the embed options to let users chose one of four different sizes--all the way up to 640x505 pixels. There is still no option to embed the video in HD (officially), but you can accomplish this using the embedding method posted below.
Also worth noting is that there's an option to automatically have the HD version play, which you could tweak in your account settings:
Go to youtube.com and log-in to your account. Click "account" --> 'playback' --> select "I have a fast connection. Always play higher-quality video whn it's available" and click 'save changes'.
To embed Youtube HD video into another site:
Step 1: Copy this code and paste it to wherever you intend to embed the video:
Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfWXRybZS4A&fmt=22
Step 3: Tweak the embed code. The finishing touch involves making a simple change to embed's URL source code to direct it to the HD version. To do this, you simply need to copy the alphanumeric video code at the end of the link you grabbed in step 2 and paste it into the part between /v/ and the & symbol in the embed code. For simplicity's sake I've labeled this "YOURVIDEOCODEHERE" in the embed code.
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