November 5thYoutube Announced to useAITechnology has enhanced the quality of a large number of low-resolution videos on the platform to enhance the viewing experience on television, web pages and at the mobile end。
This feature has been officially activated, first applied to videos with a resolution below 1080p and plans to support ultra-resolution processing up to 4K in the future. The YouTube Senior Product Director Kurt Wilms stated that the platform would keep the original video file and the creator could opt out of the function。
An AI-enhanced video will be clearly marked as "super-resolution" in the interface and the audience will still be free to switch to the original. This is intended to improve the viewing on big screen television, which has become the fastest-growing use of YouTube。
In addition to graphic upgrades, YouTube has introduced a number of TV-oriented features, including:
THE THUMBNAIL FILE SIZE CAP WAS RAISED FROM 2MB TO 50MB TO SUPPORT A CLEARER 4K THUMBNAIL
Testing a larger volume of video upload to improve the quality of the original video
A new channel home page preview and a "Shows" design to help creators organize and present content at the television end
(b) Prioritize the display of the channel ' s video during the search within the channel and optimize the detection experience
Shopping videos support two-dimensional scanning and the display of targeted commodities, simplifying the process from viewing to purchasing。
YouTube notes that the number of channels receiving more than six digits of income from television has increased over the past year by more than 45%. As television becomes "New Golden Time", companies are accelerating their layouts to compete with the attention of users with such streaming media platforms as Netflix。