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Linear on July 9, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: YouTube announces support for videos shot in 4K (4...

And yet they still limit videos to 10 minutes for some reason.

plorkyeran on July 9, 2010 | [–]

The 10 minute limit is to make uploading episodes of TV shows more annoying [1]. It has never been a technical limitation.

[1] http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2006/03/your-15-minutes-o...

lanstein on July 9, 2010 | | [–]

Unless you join their premium program, the link for which, sadly, is broken.

http://www.youtube.com/premium_register

protomyth on July 9, 2010 | [–]

I would guess the answer to the time limit is the h.264 royalty license.

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