Force youtube embed to start in 720p

Question

There are a few methods suggested for doing this online, but none of them seem to work.

For example:

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/youtube-in-720p

Answer 1

In case you're still wondering how to do it, then add: &feature=youtu.be&hd=1 Actually now I checked, this works only when you're sending the URL to someone else, not on embed.