Most people use the TV's built-in OS, as you said, which is where the Android TV numbers come from.
Also, plenty of people have heard of Fire TV.
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tvOS 14 Not Supporting 4K YouTube Videos Yet
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Also, plenty of people have heard of Fire TV.
Your eyes would have to be really bad to come to that conclusion.
Not true, I use Safari on BigSur, 4K Youtube works, has been for a few betas... Pretty sure YouTube is checking for VP9 codec support, 4K is only available in VP9 on YouTube, and now AV1. HD and below however are available in both VP9 and H264.
If they really cared about blocking other browsers I don't see why they wouldn't block Firefox, Edge etc.. Iv'e pointed this out about VP9 as a 4K requirement on YT before but it seems you just keep repeating the same thing.
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Why are some people here saying the Apple TV 4K will never be able to play 4K YouTube content? Are you seriously saying that Apple just took a wild guess the device could do it when they announced it during WWDC and when they published it on their own product page for the Apple TV 4K as evident by the MacRumors article that you’re commenting on?
I can see you like Star WarsWhat about audio?
Is YouTube now in the DD+ era or still sound bar stereo mentality?
I’d pick DD+ over 4K actually.
Yea, I’ve got a ... big screen with 7.2.6 Atmos
The 2.04.06 YouTube app seen on tvOS App Store was last updated April 29, 2020. If Google was actively monitoring this they would have had a update in the last 6 months. I also do wonder if Apple really did support VP9 within tvOS. In either case we need both to talk to each other and get this working.
hot take i think google was doing something with youtube last night and it will all be fix monday. all my friends and i was noticing videos were rendering slower than normal downloading and uploading.
If the ATV4K can decode H.264/HEVC/DolbyVision then its plenty capable of VP9 4K@60 even in software.
At minimum they shouldn’t be touting this as a feature yet. Like it’s on the product page.
In the US at least
I thought Roku was the leader by far. Then Fire TV, then Android TV and then AppleTV. Thats not including Tizen on Samsung TVs or Xbox or Playstation either... Roku, AndroidTV and FireTV have both devices and TV installs.
As to what is used the most and generates the most revenue, I cannot say.
Wow even my telly's built in Youtube app works with 4K. I was close to getting an Apple TV too, but didn't need one in the end!
Google has been developing their own standard for playback of 4k content so they wouldn't have to license h265.
This has been covered, and I recommend googling for more details. Your samsung qled can use whatever standards for 4k playback that it would like.
Apple was behind the development of h265, which is very widely used. Google uses VP9 which apple has been hesitant to implement.
I'm guessing much like many other social media accounts, the people running it don't immediately get up to date info, nor do they ask (or perhaps have a direct process of asking) for updated info.
Probably not, but h265 is hardware decoded and I'm not sure what it would take apple to implement after the fact (unless atv now has the instructions for how to do it with tvOS 14?)
please, absolutely no one pay any attention to this whatsoever. either this person (desperately) needs to get their eyes checked, enjoys scoffing at things because it just feels so good to do, or they bought a 4k tv at 55" and tried to sit 20ft away from it.
4k content, especially 4kHDR content displayed on a good -> great quality tv is absolutely worth the extra cost.
pretending like 1080p content on a 10+ year old plasma isn't inferior to a modern LG OLED is disingenuous at absolute best.
Super annoying. When I want to use YouTube I usually turn off my Apple TV "4K" and just use my TCL Roku YouTube app. It was always ridiculous but for Apple to make a big deal out of TVOS 14 being able to play 4K YouTube, then rolling it out without the functionality makes Apple look like amateurs.
Some 4K is still gimmicky, like Netflix's. 4K is four times the number of pixels as 1080p, yet the bandwidth requirement isn't 4X, so they're compressing it more. On YouTube, the bandwidth requirement is supposedly 4X.
And why would you need 4K on an iPad? You do realize the benefits of 4K aren't even apparent unless you're watching a screen size of 70"+?
Are you actually kidding me? That is so not true. Not in the least.
4K was never intended from the start for small device screens. It was for home theater. You sound like HD looks so horrible on a small screen like the iPad.
So this seems to be more than simply being a switch that Google toggled to "off" for all Macs. Which model of a Mac are you using in that screenshot? 4K and HDR disappeared entirely for me on a MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016). I am now thinking it could be a minimum CPU requirement since Skylake does not support VP9 decode.