Report PS4 to support 4K Video, with a catch or two

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walsufnir said:

Galaki said:

kowenicki said:
Lets be honest about it. This is a gen away from being remotely practical.

Seeing as how the major isps' have monopoly, we'll be lucky to get that kind of bandwidth in another 3 gens.

I read this very often and I am still surprised that there are countries where internet-traffic is limited - in Germany this only happens to mobile-internet. Internet via copper or cable is generally unlimited per month.

Data Limits aren't really the issue, though. The biggest obstacle is bandwidth limits. I am often terrorised via my letterbox by shiny bits of paper which promise me (up to) 60Mbits of interbutt, but these promises rarely deliver, and I have experienced much arse-sitting after a certain time of the evening, or after a certain allocation each day (I don't fuckin kno), whereupon my bandwidth slows to a crawl.

NOBODY EVER GETS THEIR PROMISED MEGABUTTS, but the weasely language lets the ISP off, since "up to" includes anything between that and fuck-all.

Plus, there is the whole issue of infrastructure. There are far more flaky things to rely on than copper / fibre / bandwidth caps - how will the data be distributed? the availability, nay, hackability, of Servers and Nodes creates another obstacle.