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YouTube TV To Launch Option for 4K and Unlimited Streams (variety.com) 36

Posted by msmash from the up-next dept.
YouTube outlined a string of new features coming to the internet's biggest video platform, including enhancements to YouTube TV and the rollout next month in the U.S. of YouTube Shorts -- its tool for creating short-form vertical videos a la TikTok. From a report: YouTube TV, Google's pay-TV service, will introduce an add-on option that will let subscribers watch shows in 4K, stream programming to an unlimited number of devices at home, and download content for offline viewing. Other features on YouTube's roadmap include the expansion of a new ecommerce feature to let viewers buy products directly from creators' channels; a way to let fans purchase "applause" for their favorite channels; automatically adding video chapters to relevant videos that don't have creator-uploaded chapters; and more personalized mixes on YouTube Music.
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  • I guess all this new shit explains why they're dropping support for the 3rd-generation Apple TV next month.

    • Really? Wow... bullet dodged.

      I'd been very seriously considering switching from AT&T TV Now to YouTube TV. The only things holding me back were that I'm grandfathered in to an old DirectTV Now plan and channel selection that's no longer available since the change in branding, even at the higher pricing tiers; so I wouldn't be able to switch back if I decided I was unhappy with YouTubeTV. And that YouTube TV has a really weird and annoying time-shift on several channels (Most critically on Comedy Cent

      • They're not dropping Apple TV support altogether, only the 3rd-generation models, which don't have an "app store [wikipedia.org]" like the later models (4th generation and up).

  • How about making a site that doesn't take a min of 5 seconds to load a page. And work on the auto generated captions.
    • Saying "work on auto-generated captions" is like saying "work on getting rid of these cancer cells". PROTIP: It's an active research topic: https://xkcd.com/1425/ [xkcd.com]

      With regards to "take a minimum of 5 seconds to load", webpages are not webpages anymore, they are full-fledged apps, which means they can be as fat as the designer wants them to err... I mean, be as "rich experience" as the designer wants them to. Good luck on convincing anyone we need apps (and websites) with fewer animations, collapsing sect
      • BTW this is why I don't buy the idea that a Raspberry Pi 3 can be used to browse today's web (which is something that was unironically recommended by various people 2 years ago). Today's webpages will munch through that tiny 1GB for appetizer alone. The Raspberry Pi guys understood this and released 4GB and 8GB versions for the Raspberry Pi 4. Better late than ever.
      • It isn't active enough. They should have more than enough data for it at this point.
        They ain't apps. They just think they are. Webpages are apps in the same way a web browser is an OS.
        • Voice recognition is an active research topic. Yes, even if you throw machine learning at it with tons of data: https://xkcd.com/1838/ [xkcd.com] (sorry couldn't resist). But even assuming perfect machine learning, all machine learning gives you is a pattern recognition system. But in order to fully understand unclear speech (and most English speech is unclear) you need context to fill in the gaps.

          Webpages are apps, just not native ones (think Python apps or Java SE). Javascript is the language and DOM and BOM are

  • YouTube Shorts -- its tool for creating short-form vertical videos a la TikTok.

    The fools! Don't they know about Vertical Video Syndrome [youtube.com]?!?

    • I wonder if people that put their vesa monitor stand in portrait mode are as bothered by vertical videos as the rest of the desktop user space.

      I also wonder how anyone could think that this format is good for any monetized productions. Its well understood that the format is only suitable for short consumption, which is why monetized productions in this format are literally marketed as exactly that, short. Cut out a big chunk of audience, those that are right now consuming more content than can be consider

      • > I wonder if people that put their vesa monitor stand in portrait mode are as bothered by vertical videos as the rest of the desktop user space.

        /Oblg. Why not both?

        Joke is on you. I have one monitor in landscape, another monitor in portrait mode. That way I don't care what the source orientation is. /s

    • Can't be worse than Horizontal Browsing Syndrome.
      And Horizontal Writing Syndome.
      And Horizotal File Managing Syntrome.
      And, worst of all, ((FactoryFactory.FactoryCreator.execute(FactoryFactory.FactoryCreator.HORIZONTAL_FACTORY)).HorizontalCreator.execute((FactoryFactory.FactoryCreator.execute(FactoryFactory.FactoryCreator.HORIZONTAL_FACTORY)).HORIZONTAL)).execute(((FactoryFactory.FactoryCreator.execute(FactoryFactory.FactoryCreator.HORIZONTAL_FACTORY)).HorizontalCreator.execute((FactoryFactory.FactoryCreator.

      • It takes literally no extra effort to hold your phone in the proper orientation when shooting video. Vertical videos are the video equivalent of writing posts in CAPS LOCK.

      • My biggest complaint about vertical videos is that, in many cases, the subject would have fit better in a horizontal format. How many times have we seen someone scanning their vertical video left and right across the scene, while the top and bottom of the frame are filled with nothing but pavement and sky?

  • If only people had more choice than Comcast (Score:3)

    by DigitAl56K ( 805623 ) on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:46PM (#61072816)

    4K streaming is going to stuck when Comcast comes back around with the (totally unnecessary) data caps.

    https://www.theverge.com/2021/... [theverge.com]

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by antdude ( 79039 )

      Not just Comcast. Charter wants to remove it for its Spectrum Internet. :(

  • Surprising to me that anybody buys it.

    • Surprising to me that anybody buys it.

      Well, I used to do Playstation VUE, but when they went out of business, I shopped around for who had the most equivalent streaming experience and best price.

      At that time, YouTube TV won...had same "unlimited" DVR capability included, LONG term storage of my recorded content and all the channels I liked to stream plus all local channels.

      It sucked when YTTV increased their prices not long back to $65/mo.

      But I can't find any other services that gives as close to as goo

  • What do they think "streaming" is? :D

    • Call it "pre-cacheing the entire stream" if you want. But I have used those shady sites to download youtube videos to watch them in 4k because streaming them realtime is really pushing it.

  • ...I'd subscribe in a heartbeat. Tried YouTube Red back then, but could not justify paying more than Netflix just to nix the ads (given I had zero interest in their content).

    Didn't run the numbers, but something that would, on average, give content creators the money they'd get if users watched the ads, plus some cut for YouTube should not be expensive, given the massive viewership they need to turn a profit.

  • I really wish I could post that here

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