Update (Oct 18, 4:38 pm ET): YouTube's testing ends, removing the paywall behind its 4K video quality. YouTube appears to be in the process of delivering a 4K resolution option to Premium members.

YouTube was testing out requiring a Premium subscription for 4K and higher resolutions. People in Google’s experimental group who were non-subscribers were seeing Premium appear next to the 2160p ...

It’s long been a pet peeve of mine that YouTube videos on mobile devices are limited to roughly the resolution of the screen itself. That appears to be changing now. As reported by XDA, Reddit users ...

You can watch 4K videos on YouTube Android app even if your phone does not have a 4K display. YouTube will send your phone the amount of data needed to stream 4K. There is a significant improvement in ...

YouTube viewers may have to pay if they want high-resolution streams in future, as the video service is testing limiting 4K video resolution to Premium subscribers. A number of users discovered in ...

Two months ago, Sundar Pichai announced a new era of belt-tightening at Google, leading to the shutdown of the Pixel laptop hardware team, a culling of half of the experimental projects at Area 120, a ...

There's no way I'd pay 12€ a month for Youtube. They don't produce any of the content I watch themselves; it's the Youtubers like e.g. Big Clive, Dave Jones, Gordon Mah Ung and the likes who produce ...

Earlier this month, YouTube ran an experiment where it asked some free users to upgrade to a premium account to watch videos in 4K resolution. The company has now ...

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4K media is widely available nowadays, and YouTube is absolutely full of it, thanks to 4K cameras on smartphones and mirrorless cameras, too. Now, the platform is allowing more people to see content ...