founded 2008 headquarters wilmington de united states owner united social networks slogan s quality broadcasted . website www.hdshare.tv type of site video hosting service launched july 1 2008 current status offline this article needs to be updated . please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . august 2012 hd share is a now defunct video sharing website where users could upload view and share video clips . 1 hd share was launched on 1 july 2008 . 2 the site uses flash video to display content . hd share was one of the first websites to exclusively host high definition videos . sometime in 2011 hd share was shut down due to unknown reasons . contents 1 technical informations 2 history 3 restart of operations 4 external links 5 references technical informations edit hd share s video playback technology was based on macromedia s flash player . this technology allows the site to display videos with quality comparable to more established video playback technologies such as windows media player quicktime and realplayer that generally require the user to download and install a web browser plugin in order to view video . flash also requires a plug in but adobe considers the flash 7 plug in to be present on about 90 % of online computers . 3 users can view videos in windowed mode or full screen mode and it is possible to switch modes during playback without reloading it due to the full screen function of adobe flash player 9 . the video can also be played back with third party media players such as gom player gnash vlc as well as some ffmpeg based video players . videos uploaded to hd share weren t limited in length and had a maximum size of 4 gigabytes . 4 the best format that hd share could display was 1280 720 . 5 video formats cinepak dv h. 263 h. 264 mpeg 4 avc huffyuv indeo mjpeg mpeg 1 mpeg 2 mpeg 4 part 2 realvideo sorenson theora wmv audio formats aac ac3 alac amr flac intel music coder monkey s audio mp3 realaudio shorten speex vorbis wma history edit hd share was created in the begin of 2008 as a project between 3 young students in switzerland . 2 the website was launched in test version the 1st july 2008 the website was then upgraded few times before a closure in 2010 due to an uncertain future . in 2011 the company was acquired by united social networks who is devoted for the development of the website worldwide and to open video sharing markets to small communities . 6 restart of operations edit on september 29 2010 hd share and usn announced the restart of the development operations and the soon reopening of the website . the aim of the company is to become the best video portal where users can share only quality videos hd . 7 on july 2011 the new version is online but still in beta version waiting for the tests . external links edit english hd share website english loki group references edit http www.20min.ch ro news romandie story 29033059 a b http www.lenouvelliste.ch fr news valais un youtube puissance huit 9 93526 adobe flash player version penetration adobe systems http www.hdshare.tv upload http www.lokigroup.com products http hdshare.tv view page.php pid 1 http www.hdshare.tv retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hd share & oldid 738895041 categories entertainment websitesinternet properties established in 2008multilingual websitessocial networking servicesvideo hostingvideo on demand serviceshidden categories wikipedia articles in need of updating from august 2012all wikipedia articles in need of updating navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages suomi edit links this page was last modified on 11 september 2016 at 17 35 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view