Google has just announced 5 new features added to the paid YouTube Premium subscription. New features mainly intended to facilitate the viewing of streaming videos in all situations, with a bonus: improved 1080p HD video quality… but not for all versions of YouTube.
YouTube Premium adds 5 features to its subscription. // Source: Aroged
Google continues to make its YouTube paid subscription ever more popular. In an article from the official blog of the video streaming site published on Monday April 10, 2023, the multinational announces five new features reserved for paying subscribers of YouTube Premium.
Almost all of these options are available today, although some should be deployed on other platforms in the coming weeks. These additions to YouTube’s paid subscription seek above all to simplify the daily consumption of online videos, in addition to now offering better quality 1080p, as was predicted since this recent Google test.
1080p better than yours
Called “1080p Premium”, this benefit of the YouTube subscription can be accessed directly through a video’s list of image definition choices, above the 1080p that everyone is familiar with – and which is considered and recognized as a little degraded.
Concretely, this improved version promises a “higher video quality experience”, according to the Google blog, with a higher bit rate (or bitrate), allowing more data to be transmitted per second to display a smoother and sharper image.
Source : Blog YouTube
This means that YouTube Premium subscribers who want to take advantage of this advantage will also have to have a connection fast enough to keep up, notes Android Police.
A feature whose real usefulness will remain to be tested and only available for iOS users for the moment. It should also arrive “soon” on the YouTube website.
A few details to facilitate daily use
The other four additions to YouTube’s paid subscription, on the other hand, aim to make YouTube more flexible according to its needs. First, by adding a new playlist, allowing Premium subscribers on smartphones (Android and iOS) and tablets to queue videos, as is already the case. on the website.
Source : Blog YouTube
Other improvement for Android or iOS smartphones and tablets: a “Smart Downloads” feature. If enabled, the YouTube app will automatically download recommended videos for you to watch offline. Ideal to avoid finding yourself with nothing to look at during a four-hour train journey, for example.
Source : Blog YouTube
Next, Google should now let you easily resume playing a video between your different versions of YouTube Premium, whether on the web, Android, or iOS. A continuity also available now.
Netflix Party for the pros
Latest novelty: a kind of Netflix Party for professionals. YouTube Premium subscribers can now create Google Meet video conferencing rooms dedicated to watching YouTube videos with others, even if the other participants are not Premium members.
“Meet Live Sharing” is currently only available via Android, but the tool should also be available to iPhone users via the FaceTime video calling app “in the coming weeks”, according to the official blog.
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