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8K video launched on YouTube with films so high definition they break computers1 min read

17 June 2015 < 1 min read

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8K video launched on YouTube with films so high definition they break computers1 min read

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YouTube has launched support for 8K video, allowing people to watch films in such high resolutions that it breaks their computer.

The company announced that it would allow 8K videos in 2010, and added the label earlier this year. But the first video to make use of that super-high resolution has arrived, filmed on special cameras and put together using extra-powerful computers.

The film, “˜Ghost Towns’, is a smoothly-shot video of a person wandering through an abandoned settlement, featuring slowly panning views of houses and their contents. But the video is far less innovative than how it was made, using a special RED Epic Dragon 6K Camera and then stitched together to get the full 8K film.

Read the full article here >> Via The Independent

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