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What would you rather have?

4K blu-ray player and 499$ pricetag 79 31.98%
 
399$ pricetag and no 4K blu-ray player 168 68.02%
 
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zuvuyeay on 09 September 2016
VitroBahllee said:
Tmfwang said:

I dont get all the dissapointment from alot of you guys, physical films are dying... I havent bought a regular blu-ray film in years, and I hardly see any 4K blu-ray movies for sale. Streaming movies is the future, Netflix 4K first, and other who still havent upgraded will follow soon, and Sony knows it. 

 

I've bought 4K blurays and don't even have a player for them yet. If you care about audio and visual quality, you buy blurays. And 4K blurays with HDR and increased resolution are going to be the optimal experience for people who care about quality. Which I thought PS4 fans did, until their system didn't have something the other one does. I notice you didn't put '4K bluray and $299 pricetag' as an option. Why? U mad?

no need to put the xbox-s in the poll because it was about the PS4pro which is an upgrade on the PS4  gaming wise

now if the scorpio was coming out this holiday then that should be in the poll



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baloofarsan on 09 September 2016

It certainly is strange that Xbox one S has a 4k player and PS4 has not.
As for content: it seems that Amazon only has ~40 4k movies, most of them older movies.
Has the market for retail 4k discs crashed before it even has started?



WebMasterFlex on 09 September 2016
baloofarsan said:
As for content: it seems that Amazon only has ~40 4k movies, most of them older movies.
Has the market for retail 4k discs crashed before it even has started?

I'm shocked



zuvuyeay on 09 September 2016
baloofarsan said:
It certainly is strange that Xbox one S has a 4k player and PS4 has not.
As for content: it seems that Amazon only has ~40 4k movies, most of them older movies.
Has the market for retail 4k discs crashed before it even has started?

the xbox-s is a great buy no doubt about that ,

i doubt the market has crashed,most people probably don't have 4k tv's is more than likely the reason



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Kerotan on 09 September 2016
tinfamous12 said:
It is supposed to be Sony's TOP of the line PlayStation, it's supposed to do everything the standard PS4 does but on a much grander scale. That is why people are disappointed. It's essentially more of the same, not too different. Its supposed to be the 4K killer console, but it turns out it is not.

Why would you not offer everything 4K capable in your 4K console?

It's priced at $399 the same as the OG launch.  It's not meant to be the be all and end all. It's a very cost effective stepping stone into the realm of 4k gaming.  

 

And you don't need to get a 4k TV.  It will enhance games at 1080p. You can get a 4k TV in a year or 2 when they're much cheaper if you so wish.  

 

Or you can just play the regular cheaper ps4 until the ps5 comes out in 4 years and gives you true 4k gaming.  

 

It's a premium ps4 not a super expensive do everything box.  



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Kerotan on 09 September 2016
WebMasterFlex said:
baloofarsan said:
As for content: it seems that Amazon only has ~40 4k movies, most of them older movies.
Has the market for retail 4k discs crashed before it even has started?

I'm shocked

Lol less than 50 4k movies on amazon.  Sony were so right not including this.  It's never going to properly take off and it won't reach its potential for another 4/5 years.  The only reason they'd put a UHD in the ps4 is if the price drops to practically the same as a regular blu ray player.  

 

Then they'll say fuck it and include the thing. 



LudicrousSpeed on 09 September 2016

UHD retail already crashed? lol Jesus, it's like most of you aren't old enough to remember the early days of DVD or BluRay.



cmay227 on 09 September 2016

 

 

zuvuyeay said:
Lawlight said:

What's HDR? Is that what Cerny was talking about in the meeting?

apparently it is something that will make your games even prettier on your 1080p tv's even some older games with a patch and it is coming to the old PS4's too via firmware

1080p TVs do not and will not have HDR compatability. Your giving false info.



SvennoJ on 09 September 2016
VitroBahllee said:
DaveTheMinion13 said:
Nearly none of the UHD movies are true 4K.....considering outside Docs, nearly no one is shooting in native 4K. All the UHD are simply HD remastered to UHD. Which is why quite of few of them have issues at times. Until movies are actually shot in 4K......I won't be buying remastered versions of films. They can be very hit and miss.

 

Any movie filmed for IMAX is in 4K.

You mean documentaries? Many movies for IMAX only have select scenes in IMAX format.

Here is a complete list
http://referencehometheater.com/ultrahd-blu-ray-title-info/

Even if the master format is 4K, still doesn't mean the whole movie is 4K, many still include 2.8k footage.

Ironically for now streamed tv series lead the race to real 4K content
http://realorfake4k.com/my-product_category/real4k/

4K UHD is in the stage of early blu-rays with single layer mpeg2 encodes. Except this time it's the source material instead of the compression and disc technique lagging behind.



Cobretti2 on 09 September 2016

I laugh at the comments when people say games sell consoles not movie players.

For those in Australia would clearly remember when the PS3 launched at a CRAZY price. However it was still cheaper than a BluRay Player at the time.

Guess what? Sony did a promo, guy this over priced TV and get a free PS3 to watch your BluRay discs on. It moved about 50,000 PS3s. This was at a time when PS3 barely scratched 100K units.

There is a market for 4K players out there, it would even help Sony sell more of their TVs like it did with the PS3.