While there are a number of 8K TVs with Android TV support, standard Android TV boxes were capped at 4K when streaming YouTube content — even if higher resolution videos are available on the platform. 8K video streaming support is now rolling out in a limited fashion for Android TV with YouTube for Android TV version 2.12.08 according to guys over at Android Police. As we have said, this is a very limited rollout as you’ll need to be running Android 10 and above to even see the option. If you don’t have an 8K TV you can still benefit from downscaling, when watching such high-resolution content on lower-resolution displays. That said, streaming a ton of 8K YouTube videos to your Android TV set-top boxes could really hammer your data cap — provided you have a cap. Let’s hope that H.266 video encoding comes soon, as the enhanced bitrate-to-quality benefits would really help when consuming such high-resolution content online. Weirdly, there appears to be a couple of changelogs. The initial changelog removed mention of HDR support with the .av1 codec. It looks to have been replaced with Cast Connect support, which means that a stream is handled and displayed by…
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YouTube for Android TV v2.12.08 brings limited 8K streaming support
