YouTube was already way ahead of the game when it introduced 4K streaming in 2010. Now the site wants to move to the next level with souped up frame rates for the higher resolution, a technical achievement the site only recently obtained. Changes to YouTube’s “codec and processing pipeline allows them to stream…[4K/60fps]…within reasonable bandwidth constraints.”
YouTube’s 4K/60fps experiments will really only work if you have a set-up that can handle displaying all those pixels. Not only do you need a 4K monitor, but your system needs to have the guts to handle the high-powered images. Just for kicks, I decided to run one of YouTube’s 4K/60fps videos on my Lenovo X220 and (surprise!) the laptop turned what was a beautiful video at 1080p/60fps into a slide show at 4K/60fps.
DELL 28 inch Ultra HD 4K Monitor
Samsung 28-Inch UHD LED Monitor
Lenovo Y50 Touch 4K UHD Laptop
Toshiba Satellite Ultra HD 4K Laptop
Checkout what Youtube 4K does to your PC. To bump up the resolution, click on the settings cog after the video starts playing to see all the choices available on these select videos from Al Caudullo Productions.