With so many 4K movies and TV shows available to stream, you’d think we’d be able to watch more sports in 4K — and even in HDR — yet only the biggest sports events have any hope of being in 4K, and even those 4K sports broadcasts aren’t real 4K. So why aren’t more sports in 4K? Making 4K sports is way harder than you think, and we’re here to tell you all about it in this video.
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Good video this is why I'm in no rush to upgrade to 4k they don't use the picture quality of HD. on satellite TV they simply split the extra bandwidths from digital over 5 channels to show more ads
Thanks CD for the explanation. I heard about atsc 3.0. Would this solve broadcast issue for 4k? Have you see 4k sports in atsc 3.0 yet?
Bro sports has been a serious problem. I can’t get sports to even stream 720p. What do I do?!
CBS nbc and Fox all make a trillion dollars every year
But I wanna watch the 2026 World Cup football/soccer in 8K, HDR, 240 Hz, 12 bit colors and 4:4:4 chroma subsampling lol Which is not entirely impossible with codecs like AV1 or VVC
All I’m hearing is excuses. There are solutions and they just refuse to adapt them. There is a ton of money in sports, give the people what they want. It’s bullshit.
What about higher framerates? We can just do 1080p HDR 120 fps. 1440p 120 fps? That would be so smooth 😍
In summary, the technology isn’t there yet. The same could be said about 1080p 15-20 years ago. Wait five years, and all that technology along the entire pipeline will have been upgraded.
All I need is higher bitrate for HD channels. No need 4K.
Meanwhile Amazon is currently delivering low compression high fidelity 1080p HDR video nationally every week for Thursday night football. With talk of flipping the switch to 4k next year. It's time for the networks to stop making excuses and let the tech companies take this over if they aren't up for creating a better experience. It seems to already have put enough pressure on NBC to suddenly magically offer SNF in 1080p HDR on peacock when before that was said to be too much of a challenge.
F1 has been in 4k for years and it generally looks fantastic. Onboard footage isn’t in 4k yet due to wireless broadcast limits but they are working on a solution.
Building a new stadium is harder than this, first they have to take taxpayers money…
Why can Fox always broadcast soccer in 4k all the time? Watch a football game in 1080P and 4K, look a the feet of the players. In 1080P there’s a “pixel puddle” around their feet while 4k you see grass blades.
Good lord, the amount of bad information in this video is astounding.
These are all such pitiful excuses from aging dinosaurs of media companies. Google just paid $2 BILLION per season for NFL Sunday ticket, $14 billion in total, and people are telling you that cable weight and thickness are why they deliver a product 100x inferior than current video standards?
The world cup 4k Livestream was stunning to me and I don't even like or normally watch soccer. It's really pathetic that we don't have 4k sports in the US but many other countries do. Even Canada is doing 4k baseball and basketball and hockey. I don't care if they go down from 80 cameras to just 20, the picture quality is worth it and it has to be done. Most people have 4k tvs and no 4k content, it's ridiculous and embarrassing for the United States.
The comment section can solve this but not tv network engineers. 🫡
Great video. Do you recommend I purchase the option of buying the 4K YouTube ? If so, will I see a difference? Where do I buy it if you recommend it?
its 2024 we can't even get 1080p sports all the time as some still broadcast/stream in 720p!
I feel it's a want to not modernize/poor choices as well as cost… Like why can Everyday Aastronaut(Large youtber with a small team) live stream a Rocket launch from multiple cameras on a remote location with limited support of the launch company at 4k but Fox sports can't from all the Stadums they broadcast from?
i watched sf lose in 4k 2 times in super bowl
American broadcasters are greedy they have all the resources to make it happen, instead they jack up the prices for a lame 720p or 1080HDR up-scaled resolution.
On the other hand, Just take a look at the BBC in England they broadcast at least F1 and EPL in 4K HDR.