YouTube for Android TV v2.12.08 brings limited 8K streaming support

by ShawnDex

"While there are a number of 8K TVs with Android TV support, standard Android TV boxes were capped at 4K when streaming YouTube content — even if higher resolution videos are available on the platform.

8K video streaming support is now rolling out in a limited fashion for Android TV with YouTube for Android TV version 2.12.08 according to guys over at Android Police . As we have said, this is a very limited rollout as you’ll need to be running Android 10 and above to even see the option."

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" If you don’t have an 8K TV you can still benefit from downscaling, when watching such high-resolution content on lower-resolution displays. That said, streaming a ton of 8K YouTube videos to your Android TV set-top boxes could really hammer your data cap — provided you have a cap. Let’s hope that H.266 video encoding comes soon, as the enhanced bitrate-to-quality benefits would really help when consuming such high-resolution content online. "

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https://9to5google.com/2020/11/26/android-tv-8k-youtube-limited/

Francky

Ok, now how about enabling HDR and Dolby for an App that you want us to pay 10$+ a month for, Google ?!

Sorry, just frustrated with this damn app, that works best on Windows than it does on any other platform. :(

Kenzibitt

... and we don't even have HDR at 1080p.

ifixpedals

Great. Another resolution no one will actually be able to see but swear they can see.

Wow-n-Flutter

SmartYoutubeTv

that is all

Warhost

What about an update that makes the app not shit itself every fucking time the TV turns on and the app was already opened?! Or the missing icons everywhere bug?

howie6791

Now if they would only add 5.1 support for Sony TVs that would be great.

tb21666

Just what the world needs: too many ads in 8K

OEM YT app is trash IME.

frg2005

Still, Youtube is the only app that fails at 4K on my Mi Box....

Teethpasta

What kind of trash do they pay to write these articles? Youtube will never use H.266 to encode their videos. They have their own purpose built free av1 codec for that. They are already rolling that out too.