Saturday, 3 October 2020

YouTube 4K has now come to Apple TV, iPhone and iPad, but no HDR or 60fps on TV

Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

“A big frustration with the Apple TV 4K is about to be history,” my colleague Chris Welch wrote, when we learned that Apple’s premiere set-top box would finally be able play 4K YouTube videos at their native resolution instead of being stuck at 1080p. These days, even a $40 dongle can do better than that.

But though Apple’s latest software updates did bring YouTube 4K to the Apple TV 4K, the frustrations aren’t necessarily over. It turns out you’re limited to watching 4K at 30fps, instead of a smooth 60 frames per second, and without the depth of color and contrast that High Dynamic Range (HDR) provides. That’s what 9to5Mac noticed yesterday, and we’ve confirmed with Google that — for now — Apple TV only supports 4K at 30fps with SDR...

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source https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/3/21500399/apple-tv-youtube-4k-iphone-ipad-hdr-30-fps

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