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12.9 pro can't do better than 720p videos?

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Eee1111

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Aug 23, 2017
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Screen is beautiful but every site on the internet defaults to 480p or worse if it's available

I can't believe I can't even get the options

Is it not capable?

How could a 1200 dollar tablet not be able to do better than 720p YouTube videos

I'm on my fast home wifi
 
The best I can get YouTube is 720p

And all videos default at 240 or 360p

Should I return it?
 
Eee1111 said:
The best I can get YouTube is 720p

And all videos default at 240 or 360p

Should I return it?
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It’s not your iPad. It’s a limitation in safari thanks to google choosing not to support certain codecs. Try in chrome or the actual YouTube app and you should be able to get the higher resolutions.

Edit: I tried in chrome and it’s only 720p, possibly because it’s serving the mobile site. The official YouTube app only shows me to 1440p on the new 10.5 iPad Pro.

Edit two: requesting the desktop version of the videos via safari and chrome yield the same results.
 
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csurfr said:
It’s not your iPad. It’s a limitation in safari thanks to google choosing not to support certain codecs. Try in chrome or the actual YouTube app and you should be able to get the higher resolutions.

Edit: I tried in chrome and it’s only 720p, possibly because it’s serving the mobile site. The official YouTube app only shows me to 1440p on the new 10.5 iPad Pro.

Edit two: requesting the desktop version of the videos via safari and chrome yield the same results.
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Max is 1440p in the YouTube app for 4K videos on my Air 2.
 
Eric5273 said:
The screen resolution of the 10.5 is 2224 x 1668, and for the 9.7 it's 2048 x 1536. So neither device has enough pixels to show 4K video. Only the 12.9 does.
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Whic doesn't mean that you would not benefit from 4K quality downscaled to your display resolution. I often watch YouTube 4K videos on my 1440p desktop display and they do look better than the same video at 1440p setting.
 
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On a side note, I just an iPad Pro 9.7 last years model, do we feel it's a huge difference to play HD movies on it vs SD? The file size is 2-3 times more, I have plenty of space, just wanted anyone's opinion.
 
kukheart said:
On a side note, I just an iPad Pro 9.7 last years model, do we feel it's a huge difference to play HD movies on it vs SD? The file size is 2-3 times more, I have plenty of space, just wanted anyone's opinion.
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Makes a big difference. The iPad Pro 9.7 has both the screen size and resolution to make use of HD video.
 
kasakka said:
Whic doesn't mean that you would not benefit from 4K quality downscaled to your display resolution. I often watch YouTube 4K videos on my 1440p desktop display and they do look better than the same video at 1440p setting.
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If your display only has 1440 pixels in height, then that's the most pixels it can show, meaning if you were to send it a 4K quality video, it will scale it down to 1440.
 
Eric5273 said:
If your display only has 1440 pixels in height, then that's the most pixels it can show, meaning if you were to send it a 4K quality video, it will scale it down to 1440.
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Yes, but if the video is recorded in 4K then downsampling to 1440p can have more detail than the same video at 1440p res.
 
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