Cost of UHD Blu Ray - Is MS subsidizing Xbone S, or is Sony just milking it?

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Qwark said:

aLkaLiNE said:

Okay, so UHD has more gb per layer. What's your point?  They also have different capacity DVDs that can be read by the same DVD lasers (DVD-5, DVD-9).  Still based on the same technology and we have retro bluray drives that are patch able to UHD. There is no supporting evidence I've ever seen up to this point that suggests the PS4 disc reader is not patchable for 4K content.

 

Its hard to state something as a fact without giving yourself some credence, Sony themselves haven't denied it, they tip toed around the subject which to me means there's other factors at play. If it wasn't possible, I imagine they'd be inclined to admit that now or at some point in the very near future given the backlash.

The reading speed exceeds to 128mb ps, while normal blu rays only go to 58mb p/s. Ultra hd blu rays can be triple layered instead of dual. So unless the PS4 P has a drive that supports these bandwith and supports bdxl which is very unlikely, the PS4 won't support UHD blu ray just as every other blu ray player out there. If you want to play UHD discs you either buy an Xone the Samsung ultra hd blu ray player or the panasonic. Building a UHD drive in your pc is also possible I guess.

You need to differentiate between MB and mbit, the speeds you're referring to are mbit.

 

First: PS4 has a 6x blu-Ray drive, three times faster than the PS3, so it actually exceeds your 128mbit criteria, reaching theoretical peaks of 216mbit/s or 27MB of data throughput per second. 

Also, the standards for BdXL were established a year or two before the Ps4 came out. I would be incredibly surprised if Sony didn't include one of the newer BdXL capable drives in the Og ps4 as I'm sure they assumed that their first party titles would eventually max out the 50gb storage of the 'first gen' blu Ray discs.