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M.U.G.E.N on 23 August 2012

well from what i read and understood from gaf is this will not cost them much at all to do....it's just a bullet point for marketing really. And the console will be in the market for quite a while.

and no this is NOT for gaming at all lol it's for media



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walsufnir on 23 August 2012
adriane23 said:
Either the PS4 is gonna be a powerful god monster with photorealistic games or the 4K playback will be mainly for video playback. I'm hoping for powerful god monster, but that resolution jump would still require a TV upgrade as well as a new HDMI cable to send all that information.


definitely only video-playback. even nowadays computers are most probably not able to render current games at this resolution. how could the ps4 be possible to do so? no, just no. as said - you can hook up the beast to a 4k-display and watch movies at an almost native resolution but that's it.



Munkeh111 on 23 August 2012
Conegamer said:
Munkeh111 said:
Conegamer said:
Bad move, Sony. The cost implications will likely be great, and it'll likely be at least another 10 or so years before its viable for most people.

Why will the cost implications be great? If they don't use it for gaming, it will be fine, if they do, it will be absurd

It's a gaming console. If they include it, they'll use it for games.

Like how every game is in 1080p 3D?



leatherhat on 23 August 2012
happydolphin said:
leatherhat said:
happydolphin said:
leatherhat said:
There are already blu ray players that display 4k. Adding this to the ps4 isn't going to increase cost. And these sets will probably be available at a decent price within 7 years, which will definitely be within the ps4's life span.

How do you know, what numbers are you using?


Its just an estimate. The 4k sets being released right now are around 30000 bucks so we'll see how long it takes to drop to a reasonable price. 

Fair question, but mine was more about the blu-ray players than the tvs. In essence my question here is more about the PS4's BOM than the rate of adoption question (price of 4k TVs on release).

As I said there are already blu ray players on the market that support 4k and even a few blu ray releases that support 4k (jaws is getting one). I don't think it would be a big cost for sony to support this. 



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M.U.G.E.N on 23 August 2012
leatherhat said:
happydolphin said:
leatherhat said:
happydolphin said:
leatherhat said:
There are already blu ray players that display 4k. Adding this to the ps4 isn't going to increase cost. And these sets will probably be available at a decent price within 7 years, which will definitely be within the ps4's life span.

How do you know, what numbers are you using?


Its just an estimate. The 4k sets being released right now are around 30000 bucks so we'll see how long it takes to drop to a reasonable price. 

Fair question, but mine was more about the blu-ray players than the tvs. In essence my question here is more about the PS4's BOM than the rate of adoption question (price of 4k TVs on release).

As I said there are already blu ray players on the market that support 4k and even a few blu ray releases that support 4k (jaws is getting one). I don't think it would be a big cost for sony to support this. 

and I read that a lot of companies are doing this. I think even youtube is getting 4k. Google, samsung etc are all having plans for 4k in the coming years. Sony is just one of them.



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Euphoria14 on 23 August 2012
happydolphin said:
leatherhat said:
happydolphin said:
leatherhat said:
There are already blu ray players that display 4k. Adding this to the ps4 isn't going to increase cost. And these sets will probably be available at a decent price within 7 years, which will definitely be within the ps4's life span.

How do you know, what numbers are you using?


Its just an estimate. The 4k sets being released right now are around 30000 bucks so we'll see how long it takes to drop to a reasonable price. 

Fair question, but mine was more about the blu-ray players than the tvs. In essence my question here is more about the PS4's BOM than the rate of adoption question (price of 4k TVs on release).

First one to market is a 84" 4K TV by LG and it is 22k. No idea where this 30k number is coming from, let alone we should all know that a 32-42" will cost a whole lot less than a 84".

Seems like so much in this thread is being blown out of proportion.



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happydolphin on 23 August 2012
Euphoria14 said:
happydolphin said:
leatherhat said:
happydolphin said:
leatherhat said:
There are already blu ray players that display 4k. Adding this to the ps4 isn't going to increase cost. And these sets will probably be available at a decent price within 7 years, which will definitely be within the ps4's life span.

How do you know, what numbers are you using?


Its just an estimate. The 4k sets being released right now are around 30000 bucks so we'll see how long it takes to drop to a reasonable price. 

Fair question, but mine was more about the blu-ray players than the tvs. In essence my question here is more about the PS4's BOM than the rate of adoption question (price of 4k TVs on release).

First one to market is a 84" 4K TV by LG and it is 22k. No idea where this 30k number is coming from, let alone we should all know that a 32-42" will cost a whole lot less than a 84".

Seems like so much in this thread is being blown out of proportion.

Why did you reply to me on that?? I didn't even talk about that in my reply, I just reminded him that he was initially talking about BOM not adoption.

It more appears to me that people aren't sticking to a topic and jumping all over the place.



happydolphin on 23 August 2012
M.U.G.E.N said:

and I read that a lot of companies are doing this. I think even youtube is getting 4k. Google, samsung etc are all having plans for 4k in the coming years. Sony is just one of them.

For youtube and Google to get 4k is very different than for Sony to get 4K. For every company, a different discourse. You can't just put them all on equal footing they have very different implementation with very different business constraints.



M.U.G.E.N on 23 August 2012
happydolphin said:
M.U.G.E.N said:

and I read that a lot of companies are doing this. I think even youtube is getting 4k. Google, samsung etc are all having plans for 4k in the coming years. Sony is just one of them.

For youtube and Google to get 4k is very different than for Sony to get 4K. For every company, a different discourse. You can't just put them all on equal footing they have very different implementation with very different business constraints.

and I doubt anyone here actually knows what their expectations, plans, constraints etc are. everyone is just speculating.

However it's a fact that most electronic giants are implimenting plans for 4k. Sony is no exception. And again this is not for games but for media. And if gaf is to be belived this really won't cost much to them at all.

People always tend to blow things out of proportion, as shown in this thread. remember when the vita was gonna cost 399 cuz of oled? 4k is here and it will slowly but surely will grow in the coming years. It would be stupid of them to not push for it through their PS/TVs.



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kitler53 on 23 August 2012
JEMC said:
pezus said:
JEMC said:
spurgeonryan said:
Wait wait wait. I do not even own a blu-Ray player yet or any bluerays. What does this 4K thing do ? Picture clearer?

4K is a term used to describe panles with a resolution 4 times higher than Full HD, 3840x2160 pixels.

OT: Casually yesterday I read this news about LG bringing to EU and NA their first 84" 4K TV... which has a price tag equivalent of $22.000

Also, as HappySqurriel  said, how many games will be able to run at that res natively? You need a 680/7970 to run games smoothly at 2560x1440, image the power necessary for that kind of res.

Oh I thought it was 4096*3072, but that is for cameras I see.

I'm not sure either, but it makes more "sense". After all 2*1920=3840 and 2*1080=2160 so 3840x2160 is 4*1920x1080.

And as far as I know it's not that hard expensive to make it compatible. The HDMI 1.4 spec supports 4K, so any device with an HDMI 1.4 should be able to work.

this article is probably just a sensational way to say it will have HDMI 1.4 support ... which frankly is a no brainer really.  i'm sure the next xbox will too.