So they "go HD" by switching to a format with worse compression quality. Sounds like a recipe for victory! (I can certainly understand switching to a royalty-free format, but I still found this funny nevertheless.)<p>On another note, I find it really annoying how people equate video resolution with video quality, when the only thing the resolution really tells is how much detail the video could potentially have. Bitrate and encoding settings will matter much more - if you're using low bitrates (like what you'd tend to see in real-time video calls) a HD video can easily end up looking worse than a lower-resolution video at the same bitrate. This dual move to HD and the switch to a worse format (compression-wise) might just end up doing exactly that (though I haven't actually used Hangouts myself so I can't speak for its current video quality).