Joe Maring / Android Authority
TL;DR For the past couple of weeks, YouTube TV users have been complaining about bad picture quality when using multiview.
Numerous reports indicate that watching a single channel appears fine, but the quality severely degrades when watching two, three, or four channels at once.
This is reportedly happening even with fast, wired internet connections and with other streaming apps running fine, suggesting it may be an issue with YouTube TV itself.
YouTube TV’s multiview feature is one of my favorite things about the streaming service, especially right now during football season when I can have four games playing simultaneously on any given Sunday. Unfortunately, multiview hasn’t been working very well for a lot of YouTube TV subscribers.
For the last couple of weeks, the r/YouTubeTV subreddit has been flooded with user complaints about multiview being hampered by extremely low picture quality, including comments about multiview streams appearing blocky and “sometimes unviewable.”
There are at least five separate threads on r/YouTubeTV posted within the last two to three weeks, all reporting bad multiview picture quality, and even more comments on those threads confirming the same issue. As one person writes, “Been with YT NFL sunday ticket since the beginning. This is the worst multiview quality. It’s terrible today. My top two screens are decent but my bottom two are near unwatchable.”
Are you experiencing bad picture quality with YouTube TV multiview? 0 votes Yes, it looks terrible. NaN % The quality could be better, but it's been good enough. NaN % No, it's looked great to me. NaN % I haven't noticed one way or the other. NaN %
The biggest culprit for low-quality video streams is almost always your internet connection. Especially when watching up to four channels at once with multiview, you’re demanding a lot from your home network. It would be easy to assume that low-quality streams are simply a result of people not having fast enough internet, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Joe Maring / Android Authority
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