Late last year, before the launch of what would become DoSu 2.0, I went around and checked out a variety of different streaming video hosts. Youtube, the popular choice, wasn’t cutting it in terms of quality and features. After looking at some cross-comparisons and checking out several personally of those that looked good and had the features I wanted, I came away with the following list. Each had their own advantage that we could use for the site.

• Youtube.com — community; you can drive a lot of traffic by uploading videos to this site. They had some pretty good community features, too.
• Stage6.com — quality; there’s no limit to the specifications of video you could create, it just needed to use the divx or xvid codec. It unfortunately required users to install a not quite mainstream divx web player plugin.
• Vimeo.com — ease-of-use; bar none the simplest site to use and probably the prettiest presentation on the video page itself. It even features an HD stream, but that couldn’t be embedded, unfortunately.
• Blip.tv — features; this video host had pretty much everything I wanted from a video host and more.

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