The difficulty of broadcasting a live event in streaming is high, but everything becomes even more complicated if you aspire to high definition and everything becomes tremendously difficult if the ambition reaches 4K. Alphabet, however, in terms of ambition is certainly second to none and launches YouTube in the fray of competition in sports streaming: for the first time the spectacle of theNBA reaches a 4K definition to fully enjoy the emotions that USA basketball is able to offer.
NBA in 4K
The debut will be in the challenge between Oklahoma City Thunders e Cleveland Cavaliers: the match will be available on YouTube in 4K, thus being able to transmit images even on large smart TVs without the slightest compromise. The only requirement will be a sufficiently large bandwidth capacity, because the data required for a stream of this caliber is exceptionally high compared to the average.
In Italy there is still discussion about the quality of services such as DAZN, Prime Video and Infinity +, but YouTube demonstrates how the move to 4K is already technically possible. This definitively puts everything that has been in the world of satellite offside and definitively shifts the center of gravity of perspectives on the capacity of the Network.
If this is the prospect, then it will be necessary to adapt to the entire network: the technical challenge of broadcasts like these is high (but YouTube has already faced it on many other channels), but also for reception it is necessary to be served by ultrabroadband services at the height. YouTube is therefore a bar taken to a new level, which sooner or later even the football industry will want to reach. After all, the show is all the richer the denser the image is projected in our homes.
