YouTube Experiments With Ultra HD Video Playback

One cannot really move forward and progress if the mindset decides to remain stagnant, and having said that, YouTube, the popular video site, has decided to improve their serve, so to speak. It was just a few months ago that YouTube already increased the video quality by enabling 60 FPS video playback. Well, it seems that this proverbial ceiling needs to be breached, and today we hear that YouTube is toying around with the possibility of 60 FPS video at 4K resolution, now how about that?

This is just an experiment, of course, and it will see extremely limited availability where video clips are concerned. That is to be expected, of course, since most of the videos that one can find on YouTube were not captured at such a crazy resolution or framerate in the first place, since the hardware required to do so remain out of reach from the man on the street.

Of course, such clips are definitely sweet, sweet eye candy, and you might want to make sure that you have a display that is able to handle the 3840 × 2160 resolution count in order to maximize the playback. Your machine handling the video playback, too, will need to pack enough processing firepower, otherwise it would look even worse off. The full 4K60FPS video list is here, so check it out if you are curious enough.

Edwin Kee
Categories: Computers
Tags: YouTube