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by Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 03, 2014

Youtube to Demo 4K Video Streaming With VP9 Codec at CES 2014

There will be lots of exciting products and technologies being shown off at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next month (stay tuned -- we'll have lots of coverage), some of which is spilling out to the media ahead of time. Such is the case with YouTube, which announced plans to showcase 4K ultra high-definition (UHD) content at the convention, but with a new codec. YouTube will demonstrate 4K streaming video using the new royalty free VP9 codec. If that sounds familiar, it's because Google has been hard at work developing VP9 as alternative option to the H.265 codec that powers most of today's 4K video. Image Source: Flickr (riques) Skeptics will point out that Google has already... Read more...