You could select a second channel to show alongside the primary channel you were watching. Server side means that the actual cable/streaming service is taking different streams, putting them together, and transmitting them to you as one channel.Ĭlient side is akin to the old picture-in-picture (PiP) mode that some higher end TVs offered. Client side means that your TV (or Roku/Firestick/etc.) is taking the streams from multiple channels and displaying them together on your screen. It's all about who is consolidating the streams. No way they're going to eat the server side costs of this implementation without getting some coin in return (that is some serious processing power to do this server side, correctly - muxing 4x720p streams into a proper 2160p multi-view). And that would shrink their potential total addressable market for a YouTube+ package where for $20/month extra, you get 4K content + multi-view.Įxpect an eventual rebrand of their $20/month extra 4K content + multiview into a package with a YouTube+ name (same $20/month upcharge) once this is production ready. I always knew they were going to do this server-side since as they referenced in their post, if you do this client side, this would be limited to people with the latest hardware anyways. YouTube TV announced a limited (non-signup - Google is selecting early access users themselves, behind the scenes) beta for a very hobbled (to start) multi-channel-multi-view support where they are server side rendering a preselected set of channels for multi-view.Īka - you can't select multi-view channels, only YouTube TV will present the channels that are available for multi-view, and this is exclusively for the NCAA tournament to start, for four simultaneous basketball games.
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