If you want to display every pixel in a 4K video test, a streaming platform may not be ideal, according to some of the industry’s biggest video analyzers. (credit: Nokia / Sam Machkovech)
Leading tech analysis site Digital Foundry is best known for pointing its magnifying glass at video games and their myriad issues with frame rates, resolutions, and other visual elements. Those tests have been published at YouTube for years, but on Monday, the site aimed its critical lens directly at YouTube’s tech and concluded that the video-streaming platform isn’t up to snuff.
DF’s announcement of a new video-distribution site, which requires a minimum $5/month subscription via Patreon, came on the same day that the site began publishing videos of retail PlayStation 4 Pro impressions. That fact is no coincidence.
(Ars Technica’s own PlayStation 4 Pro review is coming, by the way, and will be timed closer to the system’s November 10 launch date.)
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