YouTube Adds HD Browsing for More Territories

A new YouTube release is out, adding some new features and expanding HD Browsing to the following countries: Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and U.K. The new update also includes some options for uploading and display. Dig it:

* New Options for Uploaders: In our continued effort to give you ultimate control over how your videos are presented, uploaders can now tweak the appearance of their video when played on YouTube or in an embedded player. Just insert any of the hint tags below into the tags field of your video and voila! 

yt:crop=16:9 (zooms in on the 16:9 area, removes windowboxing) 
yt:stretch=16:9 (fixes anamorphic content by scaling to 16:9)
yt:stretch=4:3 (fixes 720×480 content that is the wrong aspect ratio by scaling to 4:3)
yt:quality=high (default to a high quality stream, depending on availability) 

For the full list of updates, check out the YouTube blog.