YouTube has abandoned its controversial experiment that required 4K . Must be a premium member to view content in

YouTube ends a series of tests on the platform it started for Users need to be members of your subscription service There is an option to play videos in 4K quality.
YouTube Music and YouTube Premium are payment methods that require a monthly fee and provide unlimited content playback without ads. PortalTIC indicates that “some users reported via Twitter and Reddit that the platform stopped supporting for 4K resolution in its free version”.
That is, if someone who was not a member of a paid service wanted to play the content in 4K, the application presented the callsign ‘Premium’. less than 2160p resolution,
Google Platforms announced on Twitter that it has finished testing the experiment and that it All users can access the highest quality resolutions Sin Service Member Day Premium.
We have stopped this experiment completely. Viewers should now be able to access 4K quality resolutions without a premium subscription. If you have other q’s we are here
— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) 17 October 2022
At the moment, the social network has yet to announce the results of the tests, but it encourages those interested to share their comments on YouTube.
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