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There! I said it, and I’m glad I did. However, Flash 7′s “Spark” video format is unfortunately the basis of what you’ll see on YouTube and Google Video — and both services suffer greatly from blurry, pixelated video as a result. For me, both services border on the unwatchable.

The real shame is that video in Flash 8 is so much better. Check out this side-by-side comparison. The moral of the story is: if you have to do video for the web in Flash, insist on encoding it using Flash 8′s “VP6″ codec. Or even better, encode it using QuickTime 7′s industry-standard H.264 codec, which is also killer. And, most importantly, do not encode your video in Windows Media format or Real format, as those formats have been implicated by an international consortium of video experts to cause cancer.

~jeff