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

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Raistline said:

SvennoJ said:

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

1X speed is 36Mbps, 4K 100GB triple layer discs require 128 Mbps to be able to be read for the 4K UHD standard. 6X = 216 Mbps. The drive is fast enough for current UHD standards. The limiting factor is whether or not the beam is narrow enough to read the 33GB layer and is capapble of reading all 3 layers.

Yeah, but you are kinda looking at it funny....

The simole problem is that the drive in the PS4 onky being able to resd two layers doesny meet the 4k BR specification. Thsts a big deal bevauee it woulf mesn that its not gauranteed that all discs will work on it. 

With BR discs, the whole point of the layers is to increase capacity. The more the layers the higher the capacity.