Facebook finally adapts to 4K video

[joe1946]

If you’re sick of your beautiful videos looking crummy on Facebook, there’s good news for you. After some super HD videos started popping up on the social network, Facebook now confirms to TechCrunch it’s testing 4K video uploads and viewing using the 2160p UHD-1 Ultra-High-Definition Television standard. Some Pages and profiles can now post 4K videos to Facebook, as well as watch them. It’s been a long time coming, considering YouTube first started experimenting with 4K video playback in 2010.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/24/facebook-4k-video/

It's about time since the 2013 Samsung Note 3 smartphone shot 4K video.

 

[Greg_E]

Great 4k cat videos and selfies! Just what we needed!

 

[joe1946]

The GH5 Facebook Group is ok.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/pansonicgh5/

 

[david_p]

is Facebook honestly even 1080? every video on FB looks like its very poor resolution.

 

[firehawk]

is Facebook honestly even 1080? every video on FB looks like its very poor resolution.

Probably good enough for cat videos

I've wondered that too. Videos seem to not look too great

 

[Greg_E]

Keep in mind the average user on Facebook, so the quality should be average user level. That said we are considering streaming our Spring newscasts to FB or Twitter, but will probably stay with Youtube. Ours would only be 720 anyway, but at least it would be good quality coming out of our studio. If I buy a second encoder, then I might think about sending a stream to one of the other places just to see what can be done, but I don't think we are going to shell out the money right now.