Facebook's video could finally catch up to YouTube

For all its investment in video, Facebook is still very much behind many other platforms in one important way: 4K.

That may be sloooowly starting to change as the social network is finally beginning to experiment with 4K video uploads — more than seven years after YouTube first began testing 4K.

Up until now, Facebook has only supported 4K video for live 360 videos — itself a relatively recent development. But the social network hasn’t supported the format for normal video uploads or livestreaming.

That may finally be starting to change: the company is starting to test 4K video support by giving a small group of profiles and pages the ability to upload 4K videos at 2160p resolution — the same standard as 4K Ultra HD sets, as TechCrunch reports. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Facebook's video could finally catch up to YouTube