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malistix1985 on 24 October 2016

If they put a UHD in the device it will run UHD support from the start or they would have said "we included a UHD and support will come soon" or something, its just very unlikely this is going to come with an update, because they would have messed their PR on this subject up completely.

They lost a few 1000 sales to Xbox because people bought the one S for the UHD option, sure, its not a big deal, but when you are any company you would have wanted to keep those people with your device(s) if it was just "an update"

I call a really bad article here,




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Porcupine_I on 24 October 2016

Sure, but it wold have to be a hardware update



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LivingMetal on 24 October 2016
Ruler said:

opinions?

Your copy and paste skills are worse than mine.



walsufnir on 24 October 2016
Ruler said:
Intrinsic said:
NO.

I dont know why some publications insist on spreading this misinformation.

The bluray drive in the PS4/Pro can read a double layered disc which maxes out at 50GB. if a UHD movie can fit in that then yes there is no reason why the PS4pro can't play it. But UHD movies require 3-4 layer discs to hold all their data. And there is no software update that Sony can do that can make them make the drive read layers that it can not read.

people said the same thing about HDR gaming and now every PS4 can play games in HDR via update. Nothing is impossible

Tell us who said what when it comes to HDR gaming. This is just making stuff up that never existed.



DonFerrari on 24 October 2016

Will wait to see what happens, if it never gets UHD BD playback then when the discs are available in Brazil I may buy a system to run it.



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exclusive_console on 24 October 2016

I am not sure how much they saved by not having 4K player. Honestly I barely used any BR, DVD for watching movies or something. As long as it has external HDD support with different video formats I am more than happy.



 

Areaz32 on 24 October 2016

Yeah i remember reading something about this prior to PS4 launch aswell.
It would be interesting to see happen. A thing to remember is back when the PS4 launched, a bunch of the standards for UHD 4k blu ray were still being developed. Sony had no way of knowing what the final formats were going to be so it made sense that those boxes couldn't do it back then.
Even now there are a lot of formating being negotiated with UHD.



HollyGamer on 24 October 2016

Actually, Digital foundry also made that similar claim, if it's DF then it's also possible.



Nymeria on 24 October 2016

I'll believe it once it is official, before then I am dubious of such claims.



TheTruthHurts! on 24 October 2016

No amount of software update will allow this.

It is hardware and it is not included in the Pro.

It is not stopping me from snagging a Pro this holiday to couple with my XBox One S that actually includes the hardware required to play 4K BR.