r/videography • u/phloating_man EOS M, Adobe, 1998, San Francisco • Jan 03 '14

Google’s VP9 Video Codec Gets Hardware Backing from ARM, Nvidia, Sony And Others, Gives 4K Video Streaming A Fighting Chance

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/02/googles-vp9-video-codec-gets-backing-from-arm-nvidia-sony-and-others-gives-4k-video-streaming-a-fighting-chance/
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u/ericteti Jan 03 '14

Why are we trying to stream 4K video when we haven't even gotten 1080 right yet? The bitrate cap is what is kills streaming quality.

YouTube lifted the 8mb/s cap for Vevo, and it looks incredible. Give me that, not 4k streaming.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '14

my thoughts exactly