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YouTube App Adds HDR Support for iPhone 12
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It’s totally ******** that they don’t support the iOS app. Literally no excuse except...yeah, no excuse.
Well it isn't so much about HDR, but Apple supporting VP9, which will offer better quality than H.264 it was using previously.
Not exactly a fan of AV1 but VP9 is ok since hardware decoding support "should" have been there all along on recent iPhone Hardware. ( Hardware Decode for VP9 and HEVC are very similar )
Not exactly a fan of AV1 but VP9 is ok since hardware decoding support "should" have been there all along on recent iPhone Hardware. ( Hardware Decode for VP9 and HEVC are very similar )
I was considering the 12 Max, but I'm in no hurry after watching Marques' review. I'm still running my two-year-old XS-Max, and the only reason I will upgrade this year is to upgrade my GF's aging iPhone.
Maybe I lost some of my Apple mojo, but I'm just not feeling it as much as I used to.
Maybe I lost some of my Apple mojo, but I'm just not feeling it as much as I used to.
I assume the advertisers pay more the more of your field of vision it takes. A full-page ad in a newspaper costs more than a tiny ad. A way around this would be to keep PiP but pause it when there's an ad, force you to full-screen it and then resume in PiP when the ad is done.
This way they could really tease you into getting youTube premium.
I remember the very old days where you could watch a youtube video, lock the screen and then hit play in the "now playing" thing and you got just the audio of the video playing while the phone was in your pocket with the screen off. I miss that.
I swear if they charge money for a native iOS feature...
Like one other user reported, this is working on my iPhone 11 regular (non OLDE) with 4k HDR 60fps. Nice!
Hopefully YouTube will support the HLG standard so HDR videos will look decent in SDR.
I think it's interesting they have to update the app to support newer iPhones but HDR has been available for a long time.
The real story though is that YouTube on iOS now supports up to 8k video!
After discovering this last week, I rewatched a lot of the UHD 4k HDR demos on the HDR channel on my iPad Pro. It looks a lot nicer even if the Pro is not quite 4k.
The real story though is that YouTube on iOS now supports up to 8k video!
After discovering this last week, I rewatched a lot of the UHD 4k HDR demos on the HDR channel on my iPad Pro. It looks a lot nicer even if the Pro is not quite 4k.
As someone else indicated, the PIP feature is likely coming but background playback is supported today only for those with a YouTube premium subscription and I don't see that changing. If you're a subscriber already, then definitely chase Google to add that feature.
To those thinking their non-OLED displays are supporting HDR (my iPad Pro 11” 2018 also shows “HDR” in YouTube), this article explains that they can play HDR videos, but not in full HDR because of brightness limitations...
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It is true that you can watch HDR movies on the iPad Pro; the problem is they are not actually screening on your device in HDR. They are actually outputting in EDR (Extended Dynamic Range), which is one step below HDR. In effect, the color gamut on the iPad Pro supports the necessary color range for HDR, but not the brightness. To gain HDR certification, the iPad Pro would need to produce 700 nits of brightness; it only produces 600 nits. It's better than SDR, but it is certainly not HDR.
Apple fudging new iPad Pro HDR capabilities
Apple’s new iPad Pro tablets have received largely positive reviews. One area that has come in for praise is its display. However, although claiming users can watch HDR movies on the tablet, all is not quite what it seems.
It is true that you can watch HDR movies on the iPad Pro; the problem is they are not actually screening on your device in HDR. They are actually outputting in EDR (Extended Dynamic Range), which is one step below HDR. In effect, the color gamut on the iPad Pro supports the necessary color range for HDR, but not the brightness. To gain HDR certification, the iPad Pro would need to produce 700 nits of brightness; it only produces 600 nits. It's better than SDR, but it is certainly not HDR.
It's fine. The standard calls for 1000 nits minimum but OLEDs and other HDR capable devices will just compensate for the brightness range of the display.To those thinking their non-OLED displays are supporting HDR (my iPad Pro 11” 2018 also shows “HDR” in YouTube), this article explains that they can play HDR videos, but not in full HDR because of brightness limitations...
Apple fudging new iPad Pro HDR capabilities
Apple’s new iPad Pro tablets have received largely positive reviews. One area that has come in for praise is its display. However, although claiming users can watch HDR movies on the tablet, all is not quite what it seems.
It is true that you can watch HDR movies on the iPad Pro; the problem is they are not actually screening on your device in HDR. They are actually outputting in EDR (Extended Dynamic Range), which is one step below HDR. In effect, the color gamut on the iPad Pro supports the necessary color range for HDR, but not the brightness. To gain HDR certification, the iPad Pro would need to produce 700 nits of brightness; it only produces 600 nits. It's better than SDR, but it is certainly not HDR.
It's not only about brightness! It's about local contrast. OLED is self-emissive, meaning each pixel can be completely black, whereas LCD displays must use FALD to achieve higher contrast.
actually, YT HDR looks spectacular Maybe your Internet is too slow, because hundreds of millions around the globe appreciate their HDR content.
"Hundreds of millions" is a generous assumption of people that use HDR. Even if there was that many people using it there simply isn't that much content out there right now. I would love a world where HDR was that readily available.
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There are around 80 mobile devices that currently support HDR. Just between Samsung's S20+ and Apple's recent iPhones, there are tens of millions of HDR capable devices in the hands of users worldwide. But that is all irrelevant for the purposes of our discussion. The fact is, YouTube HDR quality is pretty sensational. I watch it on an LG OLED and iPhone 12 Pro Max all the time and the picture has amazing clarity and few compression artifacts. If it does not look good, it is because you have a bad internet connection, not because YouTube HDR isn't exceptional. As for the true number of viewers, just one HDR video can easily attract tens of millions of views in the space of just a few years.