PS4 Pro: Ultimate Facts

[weaveworld]

SvennoJ said:

weaveworld said:
Cable talk, good!

Trying to figure out what's the deal with the 1.4, 2.0, 2.0a stuff.

Basically everyone tells you it doesn't matter because when a cable says 'High Speed' it should be fine. And right after that they say 2.0 cable are running at 18gbps (needed for HDR?) or something so it does matter?

Consider me confused and slightly frustrated of people trying to teach or explain something and only making things more confusing.

Running with my standard 'high speed' cables my tv recognizes the input from the normal Ps4 and changes it's settings to HDR.

So, do I need to buy these special 2.0 cables now in order to fully benefit from Hdr? Or not...

Will I need to buy new HDMI 2.0 cables?

That depends. You can use your existing HDMI cables with new HDMI 2.0 connections as the connectors themselves haven't changed. While there's no such thing as an HDMI 2.0 cable per se, displaying 4K at 50/60Hz will require a High Speed/Category 2 HDMI cable. You can pick one up for a few pounds/dollars online. Don't spend any more.

First of all many thanks for linking but all that stuff i have read on plenty of different sites already and thats why i came to ask here. It might be my lack of comprehensive skills but i am still confused. Or maybe more annoyed by the way sites are describing this issue.

I have 4 cables and they all say 'high speed' but not one has it mentioned wether they run at 18Gbps or less. Nor any mention of 1.4 or 2.0. These are all cables bought in the past 2 years from different retailers and different quality varying in prize from 4 euro's to 20 euro's. Now retailers do advertise with 2.0 cables which seems to be bullshit because it isn't a change in cable or connector from what all these informed sites tell you but in the same sentence they mention the 'new' standard for running 4k at 60hz... For which you would need 2.0 cables???

Am I this stupid I ask of you...