YouTube To Demo Lower-Bandwidth 4K Streaming At CES

4K streaming is spiffy and all but, let's not get the cart ahead of the horse, YouTube needs to work on delivering regular videos that don't buffer, stutter or constantly crap out too.

Next week at CES, YouTube is demoing new 4K streaming-tech at a handful of major hardware manufacturers' booths, and the first TVs supporting Google's video format should ship by 2015. Don't worry about bandwidth overages though, these streams will run on YouTube's VP9 codec, which uses substantially less data than current formats.

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