If it were to be used, how would advertising factor into this? Not saying $7/season is viable but could a low price be buffered out by advertiser sponsorship?
Interesting, but I'm curious as to what applications this has. The article points out that to get the benefits of 4k over 1080p, you'd basically need either some very expensive equipment or a movie screen. This might make sense for a website providing feature-length movies as its primary content, but I'm not sure I understand why Google would implement this technology in YouTube - a video sharing site made up almost entirely of user-generated content.
Not to mention the large screen on the wall displaying a world map and lots of green text on black. It reminds me of a movie set. Given the very likely rapidly improving/changing technology used by the NSA, you have to wonder whether it's truly the movies basing their sets off of the real NSA, or if it's the other way around.