thegreatchamp
Member
Doesn't make sense when the Xbox One S is $299 with a 4K Blu Ray player.
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PS4 Pro Won't Support 4k BluRay
- Thread starter blastprocessor
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Yeah, that's what makes it confusing.
I don't personally care at all for physical media, but selling a "Pro" product which supports Blu-ray but not UHD just seems off.
Given how poor the UHD library is right now, I have to agree. I bought a 4K TV and was looking at a stand alone UHD player a few months back but...there was hardly anything out there right now. It's kind of dire.
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
4k streaming isn't going to work on the majority of US internet connections especially with ISPs becoming ridiculous about throttling the major streaming companies.
4k Blu-ray is 100% necessary.
to play games exclusives games with higher performance?
OnionPowder
Member
Agent_Carnage
Member
Unless they can clean up some of the compression issues with 4K streaming then no. Also the Internet is still a burden to going all digital. As alot of company have the stupid bandwidth limits. Until the Internet is fast and unlimited for many many people phyical media is still here.
Snarfington
Member
Yeeeesh. If they can't come up with a serious motivator for this thing it's a no buy, and I probably won't buy a PSVR as planned either. It just seems all compromises and half-steps.
Robot Pants
Member
One of their worst decisions to date.
Coming in slightly under six axis
Coming in slightly under six axis
I'm thinking price was their number one aim. SO it may have gotten slashed at the last moment.
Forearm Star
Member
you'd think with all the trojan horse hardware they've put out before that this would be a no brainer. Such a strange move.
Edit: Now that i've calmed down about it... Meh
Edit: Now that i've calmed down about it... Meh
From Sony
So 100% no.
Hey, at least we get 3 USB ports, right?
flaxknuckles
Member
This is half the reason I wanted to buy a PS4 Neo. Welp, guess I'm staying PC-only unless the NX looks good. What in the fuck Sony
SuperBanana
Banned
4K needs huge bandwidth and data. Not everyone has blazing fast internet that can be fully dedicated to a single thing for several hours. If I do 4K content then it's going to be physical.
funkystudent
Member
Oh wow. This is actually real.
Sony are being duuuumb.
Sony are being duuuumb.
Danis Saur
Member
Thats weird as hell...
Calm Mind
Member
If I were drinking soda it would have shot out of my nose.
Audioboxer
Member
With how crazy GAFers go in DF topics good luck for some of these folks saying they totally won't buy now when tons of GAFers enjoy TLG and FF15 at a higher res and/or downsamping/higher FPS.
Tech spec envy will empty wallets regardless of post conference "I've not had time to cool down yet" shouts.
Zeouterlimits
Member
Very very weird.
might want to just find one that includes 4k vudu codes I guess lol
Agent_Carnage
Member
My last Blu Ray buy was few weeks ago when Captain America: Civil War came out. I am also planning on getting the Complete 2nd Season of Star Wars Rebels on Blu ray too.
"We already have a product for people who want to watch UHD Blu-rays, it's called Xbox One S"
Yep, the Xbox One S is a 4k Bluray player that also plays games and cost 100 dollars less than other 4k Bluray players on the market.
Like, at this point, as someone who wants to play 4k Blurays.... I'd be an idiot NOT to get an Xbox One S.
And, at this point, as someone who has a PS4... why should I buy a PS4 Pro? Better looking games are nice, but I have a PC for that.
So... better looking Uncharted 4 is the answer...... that's not going to justify the purchase for me.
Strange move, people with a 4K TV will 99% of the time want a 4k blu-ray player to make the most of it, and the cheapest 4k player for the money is the xbox.
Given most of their profits come from the high-attach ratio, seems like an odd prospect.
Guessing they had to cut the player to make November launch.
Given most of their profits come from the high-attach ratio, seems like an odd prospect.
Guessing they had to cut the player to make November launch.
Dragon1893
Member
This is so dumb it's actually hilarious, especially with how much 4K was thrown around at the conference.
entremet
Member
This an incredibly niche audience here. This is not a good sampling on wider consumer behavior.
Sony isn't dumb. They did their market research and felt the return on investment wasn't high.
Besides, this allows them to add it for the revision! LOL
Um .... A lot of us? 'Lol'
HarryDemeanor
Member
Gamers love them some PewDiePie and Markiplier. Now they get it in 4K!
OnionPowder
Member
Even then, nobody is even close to offering the quality that a 4K blu ray would provide. No streaming service is going to stream 30+ GB of data for one movie.
I bought 5 at DragonCon this past weekend and I'm probably looking at buying about 10 films in the near future because, surprise, they're not streaming at all and are likely not going to be anytime soon.
A situation that might improve if more people had UHD players, which would they would if this console came with one.
Vincent Grayson
Member
This is disappointing I guess, but I honestly hadn't even considered buying 4K discs.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
Oh it absolutely is
If they where using H264 for 4k content then I would agree. 4k Content on Netflix, Vudu,Ultraflix,Amazon is HEVC x265 codec which can do much more with way lower bandwidth.
Omnistalgic
Member
Price...
Um people who are spending $2000+ on a 4K tv with HDR tend to want the best picture quality which streaming doesn't give you. People spending $4500 on an OLED should want it even more.
I buy discs all the time they give you a digital copy and look and sound so much better.