What better example than that coming both from YouTube and Vimeo. Although video tag is not supported except under Safari and Chrome, that’s the future everyone’s going to embed sooner or later.
And if these “big players” are going that way, don’t hesitate to follow them! HTML5 is really what we as web developers were waiting for so long and even all of the problems during its standardization process it’s really cool there will be tags like video.
What YouTube is doing today, perhaps will seem normal to everyone tomorrow. However there are some questions still with no answer, as where the flash possibility to add ads into the player is going?! But we’re about to see great things from these two sites!
Just check out these two links: