Whats Bigger Than 1080p – YouTube Now Launches 4K Video Streams

Remember When YouTube only had 360p and 480p Videos? well then they took it to the next level with HD content and introduced 720p and 1080p, and we all thought that was that 1080p is as high a HD resolution you can get, well guess what YouTube have just introduced 4K which is four times the resolution of 1080p wait for it, 4096 x 2304 pixels and i guess keeping with 720p, 1080i and 1080p this new resolution would be something like 2304i and 2304p. 4K is over four times the size of 1080p.

Now lets have some perspective on the size of this 4K beast, the ideal screen size for a 4K video is 25 feet; IMAX movies are projected through two 2K resolution projectors.

Although this new 4K HD resolution sounds promising, how many 4K videos are available on YouTube? well as it turns out not very many, actually it semms like theres only 5 video clips listed on YouTube’s 4K Resolution playlist. To view any video in a source resolution greater than 1080p, select “Original” in the video quality pulldown menu:

Its not supprising theres not much 4K videos about as video cameras that produce the required format are very expensive and can take up as much space as a small refrigerator and require an ultra-fast broadband connection.

As Youtube seem to be going HD crazy, and they stream over a billion videos per day. Lets hope they have a lot of heavy duty servers on order.

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