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hey what is up guys I'm Kim PhD here and welcome to the state of 4k in early 2016 so remember how in the last state of 4k video I said that I couldn't tell how many of you guys are clicking that wrench to watch these videos in full 2160p 4k well I still can't but google analytics does now tell me what the screen resolution of everyone watching mkbhd videos is so I have a full list from top to bottom of the most popular screen resolutions of people watching mkbhd videos so in the last month the number one most common display resolution to watch one of my videos is 1920 by 1080 so a 1080p display coming in at 25 percent the next most common was 1366 by 768 followed by 1280 by 800 then 1440 by 900 you have to go all the way down to 36 to find the first 4k display 3840 by 2160 at 0.11% so just a tenth of one percent of you even have the ability to watch in 4k if you wanted to despite that I still think the state of 4k here in 2016 is very strong when looking at the state of 4k you consider these three things recording 4k streaming 4k and displaying 4k recording in 4k has never been better there is 4k cameras everywhere now from the high-end video gear and production stuff the video you're watching right now is definitely 4k all the way to the DSLRs and the camcorders and the mirrorless even the point-and-shoots and pocket cameras all the way down to the smartphones most smartphones from the past year or two have 4k cameras in there with all the millions of iPhone 6's is out in the wild the number of 4k cameras in people's pockets today has never been higher so pretty much anyone can record 4k video now for watching 4k it's actually also never been better it's not quite as widespread as the ability to record 4k like everyone has a smartphone but pretty much everyone who makes a TV now has some sort of affordable 4k panel available and all the TVs you're seeing in these store shelves and in displays are 4k you can definitely still I a 1080p TV but the price difference is shrinking pretty quick and then besides TVs there's all the other screens in our lives which are approaching 4k if not quite there yet we see a bunch of 4k laptops out there in the wild now this is Dells XPS 15 it's a full 4k laptop and there's other 4k laptops from Razer Toshiba Asus Acer they're definitely out there but you will also definitely pay premium for these super high-res displays most people aren't buying 4k laptops yet and really the smaller you go with 4k the more expensive and rare it is there's exactly one 4k smartphone in the world right now and that's the sony xperia z5 premium and I've even talked about in a whole entire dedicated video why it's not even really a full-time 4k smartphone it's 4k capable but at least it exists you have some super high resolution tablets out there but again the 4k ones aren't really showing up in stores yet so at a smaller level at the pocket level it's pretty rare to have people carrying around a 4k display in their pocket but as you get bigger as you move up to stuff like laptops you start to see more and then you get bigger stuff like the 5k iMac and your 4k Desktop displays those are more common and then 4k TVs are everywhere so recording 4k is easy displaying 4k is getting there so the focus now shifts to the bottleneck which is right in between it's streaming 4k actually getting 4k video to play on your 4k screen now if you want to watch your own 4k video that's easy you just plug it into your 4k TV and you're good to go but if you want to watch someone else's 4k video or a 4k movie or a TV show or live TV then it gets a little bit more complicated that is definitely still a work in progress YouTube is still the best of my opinion as far as supporting 4k video goes like I said this video here is available in 4k you can hit that wrench and watch it in 2160p if you want you might not have a 4k display you might not have a super fast internet connection you might not even have a graphics card that will let you watch 4k video but YouTube will still let you do it demo also added 4k support in the past year and Netflix is another one of those sites that's continuing to offer more and more of their shows in 4k when they can but like live brought SCV is I feel like always going to be like one step behind it's super hard to upgrade like if I wanted to shoot 4k video I just upgrade the camera or if I want to watch 4k video I just upgrade to a 4k TV but if I want to watch 4k live TV often that requires digging up cables on the ground connecting new wires outside like this is just something that people don't really want to bother with and haven't for the past couple years and 2016 still might not be that time for live TV it's still about the quality of the pixels not the number of them so 1080p TV is still staple so at the end of the day even if 0.1% of you guys have a 4k display at all there are little pockets of that worldwide where it's definitely higher and I love that so the state of 4k is strong and even if you can't watch 4k video if your internet doesn't support it if you have the opportunity to upgrade to a 4k TV or display do it for things like graphic design 4k gaming everything is better in 4k thanks for watching I'll talk to you guys the next one peace