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YouTube Adds Support for 4K Resolution  Print E-mail
Home Theater News What Is On In HD News
Written by Dick Ward   
Monday, 12 July 2010

Chalk this one up as unnecessary, but definitely interesting.  YouTube –  the site where you can find thousands of out of focus and pixilated videos of people playing their favorite songs on guitar, falling off of a skateboard or even getting hit in the groin – has added support for 4K resolution videos.

Unless you've got an internet connection that absolutely tears, you won't be able to get a great stream, but you can swing on over to YouTube to see some samples.  To enable the 4K resolution, click the button that would normally let you scale up to 1080p and pick "original resolution."  Then wait a while and hope your computer can handle it.

One thing can definitely be said for this move though, YouTube is thinking ahead.  Once 4K televisions become the standard, people are going to want 4K content.  Other streaming services are slow to adapt, so you can be sure that companies like Netflix won't be enabling it.  YouTube, on the other hand, is right on board.
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Dosomeresearch   |2010-07-12 13:48:54
""Then wait a while and hope your computer can handle
it.""

Last time toms hardware tested a blue ray load on a recent quad
core intel CPU the blu ray play back only loaded one core to 7%. I think any
modern computer will have no problem with 4K. Then again this site and
audiofools are very far out of touch with the real world.
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