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>YouTube is only going to offer UHD over VP9, meaning that 4K smart TVs and set-top-boxes will have to support VP9. Google told us VP8 was the future, and that
by anon1385 12y ago
>YouTube is only going to offer UHD over VP9, meaning that 4K smart TVs and set-top-boxes will have to support VP9.
Google told us VP8 was the future, and that widespread hardware support was imminent. Then in less than a couple of years they abandoned VP8.
Next week millions of fairly new TVs are going to stop working with YouTube because Google decided to shut down the API: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6098135?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6098135?hl=en
I'm not sure the TV industry is about to invest in supporting a technology that will probably be long deprecated by the time most of their customers will even be able to use it. Fool me once etc
- Dylan16807 12y agoThat's baffling. Do they have any reason at all to force people onto the new API?
- balls187 12y ago> Do they have any reason at all to force people onto the new API? Youtube Ad Support.
- Dylan16807 12y agoThe new API has the ability to enforce ads just by moving to it? TOS changes?
- ZeroGravitas 12y agoBy "TV industry" I assume you mean the manufacturers of TVs. Since most of them support Android TV (which requires VP9), or want 4k Youtube as a ready source of content for their 4k TVs, and are often brands that already make Android phones, or re-use chips intended for those that do, I'd guess they'd have to do more work to avoid VP9 then to use it.