YouTube’s ‘enhanced’ 1080p for Premium subscribers is now available on desktop web
Don’t worry: the non-enhanced 1080p is still available.
[ sourced from The Verge
This is the best summary I could come up with:
YouTube’s higher-quality 1080p option is now available for all Premium subscribers on desktop globally, spokesperson Paul Pennington confirmed to The Verge.
The company officially launched the “enhanced bitrate” 1080p in April on iOS after an earlier test.
I don’t pay for Premium, but I’ve seen the enhanced bitrate option on a handful of videos on Friday as I browsed YouTube in Chrome on my MacBook Air.
But if you can take advantage of the enhanced bitrate, it will make things “look extra crisp and clear, especially for videos with lots of detail and motion,” according to an April blog post from YouTube.
The enhanced 1080p for Premium subscribers is also rolling out on YouTube on living room-focused devices like Chromecasts and video game consoles, Pennington confirmed.
The feature isn’t available on Android yet, according to Pennington, but in June, it showed up for at least one person, 9to5Google reports.
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