YouTube’s latest proposal has not lasted a month, which has just announced that it has finished a series of tests on the platform for which it began requiring users to be members of its subscription service to have the option to play in 4K.
The rectification has not come by official communication or anything like that. The platform has confirmed its change of heart through a response to a Twitter user. “We have completely disabled this experiment. Viewers should now be able to access 4K quality resolutions without being a premium member. We are here if you have any other questions.
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4K videos with the free version
In early October, some users reported via Twitter and Reddit that the platform had stopped offering support for 4K resolution in its free version. The idea was that this modality would become available only to subscribers of its payment service.
Thus, when a user who was not a member of their paid service and wanted to play the content in that resolution, YouTube would present the Premium callsign below the 2160p resolution. This was collected by MacRumors, which compiled a whole series of comments and opinions from affected users.
“What will be next? Mandatory premium subscription to watch videos in resolutions higher than 360p?” one of the users complained on Twitter. “YouTube is desperate,” added another.
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How to boost YouTube Premium
Currently, YouTube has several modalities: YouTube, which is free, YouTube Premium (which requires a monthly payment and has advantages such as unlimited content playback without ads) and YouTube Music, focused on music. The latter has an extensive library of songs and shares similarities with streaming platforms such as Spotify or Apple Music. The most widespread among users is the first, the free one.
YouTube has several modes
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Image quality is important, but many users don’t mind giving it up if it means paying for the service. That may be one of the reasons why YouTube has backed down on its idea of including 4K playback in the premium park.
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It’s no secret that YouTube wants to boost its paid package. Just a few weeks ago, the platform enabled a new functionality that allows its subscribers to zoom in on the image of a video from their mobile device, regardless of whether the recording is horizontal or vertical.
