PS4 Pro’s inability to play 4K UHD discs is, no doubt, short-lived

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joeorc said:

It's not about hiding the fact..the HDMi controller inside the PS4 was able to be updated to HDR , because it was 2.0a compliant.

The BD-UHD optical dive is a BDxL optical Drive Sony has indeed a BDxL optical drive inside the PS4..it can read layers past two layers..Sony did not want to pay the licence's for UHD playback, it most likely saved a few $ , without that functionality.. And it's very likely Sony feels no reason to update the Drive for UHD playback, because the HDMi port controller chip has a Upscaler inside..

It's a 6x CAV drive, it's simply not fast enough for 4K UHD discs. Unless they can patch it to spin faster....