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Guitarguy on 11 September 2016
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Pemalite said:
Guitarguy said:

You seem very knowledgable on technology in general. Is there any reason you can see why Sony cannot update the blu ray drive to UHD via firmware update??

I haven't looked into a complete breakdown of the PS4 Slim/Pro drives themselves yet, so I can't really answer that question.

However... When the Xbox One and Playstation 4 first launched, the Blu-Ray 4k standard hadn't been fully ratified.
The Original Xbox One and Playstation 4 could actually output 4k already, thanks to the inclusion of HDMI 1.4. (Although limited to 30hz.)

The issue with those consoles actually came down to the drives themselves, from there everything gets pretty messy.

When you say 30hz, does that equate to 30 frames per second? If so then outputting 4K video content(via streaming) on PS4/Xbox One shouldn't be a problem considering movies/film/shows run at 24 frames per second? I know Sony are patching the PS4 to run HDR but I wonder why they dont patch the original PS4 to run 4K video.