Netflix and YouTube streaming video is about to get a lot faster Dish?

[bluegras]

Dish needs to look into this for youtube on the hopper 3 for 4k Videos what do you think?
Netflix and YouTube streaming video is about to get a lot faster
Tech's biggest companies -- including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Cisco and Netflix -- have finished the first version of video compression technology called AV1, and now they're ready to use it to speed up your streaming video.
This technology will improve your streaming video by 30 percent

 

[osu1991]

Won’t do any good without new equipment that supports the new AV1 codec.

 

[dweber]

I remember reading that the Hopper3 would not play YouTube 4K content because of a hardware limitation. The chip would not decode the 4K content. Has that changed or am I wrong?

 

[osu1991]

I remember reading that the Hopper3 would not play YouTube 4K content because of a hardware limitation. The chip would not decode the 4K content. Has that changed or am I wrong?

YouTube 4k currently uses VP9 codec instead of HEVC.