High-quality YouTube videos coming soon from News.com reports Steve Chen, YouTube’s co-founder, said YouTube will be offering high-quality streams of YouTube videos within three months. YouTube will detect the Internet connection of the user and offer the HD quality option if the speed is fast enough.

In other YouTube news, YouTube announced they have added new video categories and a suggested tags feature.

YouTube has edited some of their categories:

- Travel & Events (previously “Travel & Places”) - Howto & Style (was “Howto + DIY”) - Gadgets and Games (now part of “Entertainment”)

YouTube has also added some categories:

- Education - Nonprofits & Activism - Science & Technology

Also, when you select a category for your video, suggested tags come up to aid the user in picking the appropriate tags. This is how it works:

You select a category:

Then you see suggested tags below:

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