I'm starting to wonder if it's Google that's blocking Apple from allowing 4K streaming in favor of using Google's products to view it. Very odd this keeps going on.
Google has been developing their own standard for playback of 4k content so they wouldn't have to license h265.
I honestly can’t understand why it hasn’t been there from day one when the 4K Apple TV launched. I have a 2017 Samsung QLED and the built in YouTube app plays 4K content just fine. I’d expect that a device dedicated to media playback would do that as well to be honest.
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.
In all fairness the TeamYouTube Twitter account is run by either bots or morons. Many large content creators have reached out to them for help for various things and it’s always a pain to get a resolution. Folks at the company can’t even call each other, it’s all done via email. Rules are applied unevenly, different reasons are given depending on which bot/person is running the account. 😂 Wouldn’t surprise me if it is something that YouTube needs to enable on their end.
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.
I don't think VP9 is that processor intensive if the Apple TV can do H265 videos and HDR.
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?)
4K is a gimmick anyway to get you to pay a higher cost for media
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.