So we should film in 4k now to prevent our videos from looking like garbage in 8 years, right? Actually, maybe not. Go check out a popular YouTube video from 2014, and compare it to one from 2020. Heck, the prosumer cameras that came out in 2020 ( like the Sony A7S iii) blow away cameras from 2018, which blew away the cameras from 2015. People continuously fail to recognize just how fast our electronics will advance.

Or will they? Are We Future Proofing By Filming in 4K? Will These Devices Ever Be Capable of 4K?Ħ40K (of RAM) ought to be enough for anybody Meaning 99% of people will never see your YouTube video in 4k.

And even if you had that, YouTube will throttle you down to 1080p regardless (to save bandwidth). To stream 4k YouTube content, you would first need to buy a ChromeCast Ultra 4k HD or an AppleTV 4k and hook it to your 4k capable television. DeviceĮven the most Spec’d out laptops, and the most popular computer monitors don’t have 4k resolutions. As awesome as they are, they don’t have a resolution that can display 4k content either. While phones are inching their way closer to 4k ( Sony released a 4k smartphone in 2015), most popular phones as of 2022 don’t support 4k. Here’s a table of the latest iPhones and their resolutions. Should you be obsessed with making 4k YouTube content when 99% of your audience watches on non-4k devices (iPhones, iPads, and cheap LCD computer monitors)? Is there any point to it? Let’s find out! What’s The Max Resolution of an iPhone?Īlmost 0 of the popular devices your audience watches you on can display 4k.

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