The consumption of audiovisual content in streaming is increasing, we have connected televisions or multimedia centers such as Apple TV or Amazon Fire TV. Apple has tried to sell Apple TV in many ways, but the truth is that most people use it for the purpose of streaming content. Now the boys of 9to5Mac confirm data posted by various Reddit users, something we have been waiting for a long time ... The YouTube app for Apple TV can finally play video in 4K. After the jump we give you all the details of this YouTube novelty.
This novelty that allows us to play 4K videos on YouTube was published by the Reddit profile of the blog flatpanelshd, in fact They also published the image that heads this post. There you can see it very clearly, now we can change the video playback quality up to 2160p, synonymous with 4K video, obviously in videos that are uploaded in this quality. Yes, it must also be said that we have 4K video but we are left, for the moment, without the possibility of HDR video or 4K video playback with frame rates above 30fps, that is to say nothing of 4K at 50fps or 60fps (in this case we will return to 2K).
The guys at flatpanelshd also comment that they have discovered that the Apple TV 4K uses Google's VP9 video codec, something strange since Apple together with a consortium of technology companies (among which is Google, Netflix, and Microsoft) developed the new AV1 video codec. What is certain is that Apple is expected to end up launching a new Apple TC to replace the current one and improve its characteristics. With the launch of Amazon's new Fire TVs, or the new Google Chromecast, I think Apple has to propose new things since the trend is to launch cheap devices and not with the price of the Apple TV.
