PlayStation 4 will work with Xbox One's HDMI pass-through port

[SvennoJ]

Xenostar said:

fatslob-:O said:

C'mon people this is good feature for the xbone regardless of how you spin it.

It is a good feature if you want to use it. 

For me its just another feature i wont use thats driving up the price at the expence of better gaming hardware. 

 

Edit:

Before im shot down the reason i wouldnt use it is i have a Video Receiver already that takes 5 hdmi in and outputs 1 to the tele, also does 7.1 Dolby processing to surround sound speakers and allows me to easily switch between HDMI devices. Why would i want to replace that with something thats only got 1 Hdmi in

I know the feeling. Looping the hdmi out from the receiver into the xbox one, and xbox one back into the receiver is probably going to create a time paradox.

The xbox one has a seperate optical out though. My receiver has the option to put a different sound source over any hdmi source. So receiver out to Xbox One, Xbox One to TV, Xbox One optical out to receiver, and all HDMI inputs on receiver set to use optical in from Xbox One. I still lose lossless and uncompressed sound formats in the process (s/pdif limitation)

Will the Xbox One convert 7.1 uncompressed from HDMI in, to DTS-HD over s/pdif, how does it mix the sound if at all?
Does it loop through the HDMI signal when it's unplugged? (can't leave consoles plugged in with toddlers unfortunately)