PS4 Slim Review

[SvennoJ]

torok said:

Normchacho said:

I imagine that it was simply a case of very few people using the optical port. Think of it this way.

Say Sony sold 40 million PS4s with optical ports but only 2 million people ever used it. That means Sony spent $60 million on 2 million users.

So with the Slim they decided that it wasn't worth the cost or board space to include it.

I believe that's important to remember that we will have a high-end model soon, for 400 or 500 bucks. The kind of people that have 4K sets, use optical ports and really expends a bit of cash on home theaters and such, will probably want the best model, specially because it will run games in higher resolutions to really make their expensive TV sets shine.

I really can't see someone expend 2K on a TV and go "oh, no, 500? That's expensive. I'm saving 200 bucks with the low-end model!".

I have a home theater, ditched optical s/pdif a long time ago. It doesn't support lossless audio for over 2 channels. It was useful when I still used my old amp without hdmi in the living room.

I do hope (but won't hold my breath) is that Neo has dual hdmi out ports, one for audio, as I don't want to upgrade my amp yet (no hdmi 2.0 pass through). Going back to lossy audio over optical s/pdif for upscaled 4K visuals is half a step forward, big step back :/