Earlier this month, YouTube ran an experiment where it asked some free users to upgrade to a premium account to watch videos in 4K resolution. The company has now ...

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YouTube might be testing making 4K streaming a paid YouTube Premium feature. 4K is currently free for all users, but people on Twitter and Reddit said YouTube was ...

For a small number of people, Google briefly tested a change to YouTube Premium that would make 4K videos unavailable to free users. YouTube has supported 4K videos since 2010, years before the ...

I was reading an article on Eurogamer about 'things PCs can learn from consoles regarding 4k content'. One of the takeaways was that it's possible to create an internal custom resolution of say ...

Update (Oct 18, 4:38 pm ET): YouTube's testing ends, removing the paywall behind its 4K video quality. YouTube appears to be in the process of delivering a 4K resolution option to Premium members.