As early testers have noted, iPad's native Youtube app downscales both the standard and HD version of videos to low resolution while rendering over the 3G network. This is also the case with other apps like Netflix where videos are downsampled to pretty low resolutions.
however notes that iTunes video previews continue to be rendered at high resolution.
In what may come as further disappointment to users, iLounge also notes that some third-party
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