Xbox One S Supports 4K Gaming Upscaling, MS Confirms

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SvennoJ said:

Barkley said:

It handles the upscaling itself, instead of the TV. Which should give it an advantage in certain areas such as display latency. It really depends on your TV how much an advantage it's going to be. Some tv's are rubbish at upscaling themselves so teh XBO S having it's own will be a good benefit, but other tv's are really good at upscaling themselves too.

Yep it depends on the tv. With Alan Wake I got better image quality on my projector by letting the projector upscale 720p to 1080p (setting the 360 to 720p output) instead of letting the 360 handle the full upscale. If you have a high end 4K tv you might get a more pleasing image just leaving it in 1080p.
It depends how the upscaler is going to work. If it's a simple quadrupling of pixels of the 1080p buffer to reduce lag and unnecessary switching of display modes than the tv can likely improve iq at the cost of added latency.

To be fair, the Xbox 360's scaler can't hold a candle to modern scalers that use more complex algorithms. But your point is valid.

Bandorr said:
I don't really understand this. 4K TVs already come with upscaling.

Is the slim going to do something the TV can't do?

1) It will help eliminate input lag by removing the processing burden on the TV.

2) Developers can use the scaler to do simple things like image sharpening, blurring etc'.

3) It's using more complex hardware with a more complex algorithm to produce a better scaled image.