You can watch an 8K video on YouTube — in theory

Most people don't have a monitor or TV that supports 4K resolution, so why go to 8K? There's only one answer: Because you can

As 9to5Google noted Tuesday, a YouTube video entitled "Ghost Towns in 8K" (above) can be seen in 8K, or 4320p resolution

The video was filmed by Luke and Marika Neumann, who used a RED Epic Dragon 6K camera in portrait orientation and then stitched the resulting footage together in Adobe After Effects to get the 8K resolution.

That's 7680 × 4320 pixels or 33.2 megapixels. For comparison, a common 4K video standard is 3840 × 2160 pixels or 8.3 megapixels — by pixel count, 8K is roughly four times the quality of 4K video Read more...