Polygon

The next-gen Xbox One will include support for ultra high-resolution 4K as well as 3D, Microsoft's Larry Hryb revealed in a Yahoo chat session yesterday.

"Xbox One supports both 3-D and 4K," Hryb said in response to a question about the console including these features.

Following the Xbox One's unveiling on Tuesday, Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi told Forbes the console's video and interface will work with HDTVs.

"The video and interface portions [will work with next-gen TVs], absolutely," he said. "Games developed for 1080p will run at 1080p, obviously."

Mehdi also revealed the console will support 4K for Blu-ray at launch, with the possibility of games and other content being available at 4K in the future if they are rendered at that resolution.

"There's no hardware restriction there at all," he said.

4K, also known as Ultra HD, refers to a display resolution approximately four times the resolution of 1080p displays. Several companies, such as Sony and LG, have started to manufacture TVs with the emerging standard, though the price point can begin at tens of thousands of dollars here in the technology's early days.

File size may be another technological hurdle to 4K adoption: Sony said in February that 4K videos could require downloads over 100 GB. Neil Hunt, Netflix's chief product officer, told The Verge earlier this year that the streaming video service expects to offer 4K video content "within a year or two."

After revealing the PlayStation 4 in February, Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida told Polygon the company's next-generation console would support 4K output, but not for playing games.

"The official answer is that the PS4 supports 4K output but for personal contents, like photos or videos. Not games," Yoshida said. "PS4 games do not work on 4K."

Update: A representative from Microsoft confirmed to Polygon that Xbox One games will support both native 4K resolution and upscaling to 4K.

http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/23/4359450/xbox-one-will-support-4k-output-resolution-and-3d

So another similarity to ps4 :) But good to know that the bluray-part is future-proof. I am looking forward to see how good the 4k-upscaling will work!
Also, although I am an Xbox-fan, games at 4k is crap to me, as it is with ps4.

like every device with HDMI 1.4 a/b potentially does

it would have been far more interesting if it has HDMI 2.0 (which isn't even specified at this point btw), because HDMI 1.4 is inherently unsuitable for 4K gaming, as it afaik only supports the resolution in up to 30Hz (or was it 24Hz?)

I don't give a rats ass about 4k. Most HD tv's have horrible image quality as it is. How about about working on higher Hz rates, less lag, whiter whites, and blacker blacks before we move on to 4k hm?

4k, atleast at this point in time, seems as useless as a penis flavored lolly-pop. If not having it dropped the price of the ONE, I'd rather it be excluded.... Then again, the 7th gen did go on forever. It could be relevant by the end. Better safe than sorry I suppose.

They are lol. true OLED tvs. but their life sucks atm and costs $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ as do 4k tvs.

Think this is fairly good.  My next TV will probably be a 4K 240Hz passive 3D TV.  For 3D I would run 1080p – which a 4K TV does much better than a 1080P as the format halves the resolution.  But I think the far superior Hz rate is worth it. (I don’t care for shutter glasses.)

I think you are right about the 4K limit something like 24 or 30 Hz (4K24p or 4K30p.)  Unless they make some major revision, HDMI is running out of ability to scale much higher than that. 

There has been talk about suing something like a CAT-6 cable for higher resolutions.  Which would be Great!  The stander is stable, well shielded, and cable is good and inexpensive.  But something like Thunderbolt its going to try to challenge it.

I don't know about HDMI 2.0 what have you heard?

But imagine MS had said exactly this! "No guys, 4k is not important for us - it's not mainstream until 2020!". Not that it would make a difference by now given all the hate-threads...

I heard they want to finalize specs this summer and first TVs with HDMI 2.0 might arrive in 2014. 4k at 60Hz should be a given in that one. You could tranfer enough data with cat-6 for 4k 60Hz (24bit color depth) gaming, so that is a real possibility I suppose, yet for videos that's out of the question because it's lacking encryption - a no-go for the industry.

Unfortunately they dropped the version numbers in 2012, so even devices that have the newer version won't be advertised with that - yay for consumer confusion I guess.

Personally I'm in the same boat as you are, I'm mostly interested in 4K TVs for the full 1080p per eye in passive 3D with these sets, yet I will at least wait for HDMI 2.0.

JESUS. 

I've beein a visual whore since we got one of the first flatscreen tvs (Sony Trinitron) way, waaay back. 

Where the hell do you come up with this nonsense? Go watch Avatar on BluRay on a 100Hz LED TV. THEN, AND ONLY THEN DO YOU HAVE ANY RIGHT WHATSOVER TO SPEW SUCH NONSENSE.