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hey what is up guys I'm ki Bhd here and as much as YouTube analytics tells me about the people that watch these videos what devices they watch it on what browser you're using what operating system you're using one thing it doesn't tell me is how many people click to toggle to watch in 4k how many people actually click that wrench and watch it in 2160p I have no idea at the beginning of 2014 after last year's CES we were looking at 4k in its infancy basically and as much as a lot of people would have liked to have said that was the year of wearables it was quietly the best year yet for 4k so about a year ago YouTube started supporting 4k uploads officially and things have heated up a lot since then so 4k has gotten immensely better in two ways one recording 4k and two watching 4k so for watching 4k it's simple you just need a 4k display a 4k TV some panel with a 4k resolution to watch the content on for me I picked up these Asus PQ 3 2 1 Q again about a year ago and when I first got them these are serious they were about $3500 a piece the price has gone down under 3000 under 2500 in fact under $2,000 they're hovering around 1500 bucks apiece now a year later after I got them I'm not mad or anything but it's less than half of what I paid for them a year ago and that's been the general trend with these 4k displays and these 4k TVs they're dropping a lot in price as our commoditized and start to be a lot more popular and then there's this this is the 5k iMac not 4k 5k it's the highest resolution commercially available display that also happens to have the computer built in as IMAX do so this 5k panel has a resolution of 50-120 by 2880 so it's actually four times the 2560 by 1440 that other 27-inch monitors are it's a crazy amount of pixels and I love it these things are super sharp when you get right up close to it you still can't see any pixels it's awesome for video editing photo editing really any visual graphics work you gotta love it and the technologies that make it possible one of my predictions for CES this year in 2015 was that we would see a lot more 4k TVs and of course we did basically we see that everyone who makes a TV now makes some 4k TVs so they're everywhere they're lowering in price like every month actually leave some of my favorite 4k panels in the description below some of the TVs and monitors I've gotten hands-on time with that I can actually recommend including the ACE uses I use now so clearly it's getting easier to watch 4k but what can you watch in 4k what can you actually watch on these 4k TVs well in addition to all the 4k TVs coming down in price we also see a whole bunch of 4k cameras coming down in price and existing more I talked about this in my CES highlights video but we have a bunch of 4k handycams now we have a bunch of 4k action cams the new 4k GoPro and even a ton of smart phones coming out that can shoot in 4k so regular people can shoot 4k video too so we have all these cameras that can shoot in 4k and we have all these TVs that can show 4k videos so now we just need them to connect we need them to work with each other and there are two main players that are making this happen right now Netflix and YouTube on Netflix you can already watch a bunch of new shows in 4k that are being shot in 4k and YouTube is also supporting 4k really well in fact a ton of youtubers including the ones that I was hanging out with that CES are all rocking 4k cameras and uploading 4k videos all the time including yours truly so this video you're watching right now is also available in 4k if you want to check it out fun fact I did this video last year the 4k state of 4k using a 1080p camera so I up scaled it to make it look 4k I mentioned at the beginning I don't know how many of you guys are actually clicking to watch these videos in 4k but even if there are a bunch of you with a 4k display or a 5k iMac out there I still don't know if your internet or your computer can handle watching 4k on YouTube since it requires extra bandwidth for these bigger files and extra processing power to push all these pixels so and half of you guys are watching on your phone anyway so it's definitely not 4k there even though it can be up to 1080p or sometimes 1440p either Waypoint stands for K now he's way more prevalent than it was even a year ago today I feel like I said 4k a lot in this video either wait for K is everywhere you're going to see a lot more people buying 4k TVs Black Friday is going to be probably this is going to be the yield people buy a 4k TV on Black Friday you're going to see a lot more 4k laptops start to roll around that has already begun and as much as it seems ridiculous and as much as it might seem completely unnecessary and a waste you're gonna see 4k phones sooner or later in probably a year or two we're going to be having 4k displays in our pockets as insane as that sounds but the connection that we talked about earlier is being made so thank you YouTube for supporting 4k this early and when people come back to watch these videos in maybe one or two years on their new 4k TV or their 5k iMac they're going to appreciate all those extra pixels and that crispy 4k video so if you're looking to buy a TV for the long term this year or if you're looking to buy a camera that you plan on using for a long time might as well make it 4k because 4k is here to stay that rhymed thanks for watching I'll talk to you guys in the next one days