Anyway to get YouTube to show 8K?

by HSMBBA

Annoyingly, I'm unable to play 8K content on my TV for the most part (Sony Bravia Z8H). Is there a way to force to output 8K on an 8K video? Or another app I can use? Etc?

pawdog

I certainly don't have an 8k capable TV but plenty of entries on YouTube are mislabeled. I would try SmartTubeNext so you can get access to every file associated with each entry. If there is an actual 8k file there you should be able to access it.

seedless0

Does the builtin YouTube app show 8K option? When play back a video, hit up button and select the gear icon.

latinriky78

I assume the TV is 8K but, does it have AV1 video decoding?

As far as I know only videos encoded in AV1 are the ones that should play in 8K on YouTube.