On the flip side:
- Many Intel CPUs from the last ~5 years can decode 4K fine
- Hardware 4K H.265 decoders exist these days, though I don't think Youtube uses H.265
- Internet bandwidth is increasing, depending on where you live in the world, but probably not enough
-» Google's next gen codecs (VP10) may help with this, but I doubt much (codecs get better compression ratio but increase computational costs; with CPUs not getting faster these days, there's somewhat a limit to how slow you can make a codec)

Still mostly pointless IMO, but barriers to 4K are going down (which was pretty much expected).  I don't see 8K adoption any time soon, or even in a few years' time.

Looking back 6 years... yeah, pretty much the bigger = better mentality.

(This post was last modified: 12/05/2016 11:43 PM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)