I spent this week looking for the options for streaming to see if Twitch.tv could be an alternative option to the resolution setting for 8k, and this was posted about enhanced broadcasting that is currently in beta:

I'm going to be frank with this one. 4k has been available since the launch of twitch and with a multi-computer setup, I was easily able to stream in 4k with little trouble. Back then, it used to be more costly since a single computer would struggle to run 4k with a reasonable framerate, but you can just run 4k off of a standard NVENC setting without the need for AV1 currently with the RTX 4090.

I think the people who are setting this up do not have enough experience in both gaming and the technical proficiency as I was easily able to get 1440p complete with the GTX 1080, so it's unfortunate that they are essentially trying to prolong 1080p as their favorite standard, even though 4k TVs and monitors are in their late years. This has been extremely disappointing as 4k used to be state of the art late in 2015 and in 2019, 8k was starting to show up. These companies have been extremely late to the table, and it's just showing that either something has failed on the back end, or the adoption rate of companies like Twitch.tv (amazon) has not been keeping up with current technological trends.

I wanted to offer a premier streaming channel that offered resolutions up to 8k, but when I tested AV1 on YouTube, I found the max resolution was in 1440p, which did not make sense since YouTube can display videos in 8k which were normal. It takes a few days to upload the videos, but it's getting to the point where if I have to wait 10 years (again) to be able to stream at my current quality of resolution. I think it gets to the point where you're looking at yourself being ahead of the crowd, but then you are trying to engage with an audience significantly younger who may not have as much work experience to be able to afford the best of setups and it's disappointing to see that I have to just reveal that on the top end of technology; They have a lot of work cut out in front of them.

I am at the point where 1. people are discussion how to get to the top level of resolution setting, but 2. are not aware of the glaring issues when it comes to having programs and games fully functional. At some people, people will catch up and learn that the issues are the same. There are so many issues with people not addressing these kind of deficiencies as they do not seem to care that this is the setting that should be current standard.

I am currently unsure about the future, but if twitch does not keep up to speed, they are currently obsolete at this point.