Re:Sony reveals PlayStation 5 details
by vvillena on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @04:07PM
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PS5 will support 8K just like PS3 supported 1080p: it was there but almost no one used it. Nearly every game opted for 720p instead. It's a way to future-proof the generation, allowing for a future enhanced version of the console.
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Re:Sony reveals PlayStation 5 details
by jjoonathan on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @04:19PM
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Cautionary tale: the PS4 Pro retroactively dropped support for many early 4K displays, including my own, in a software update. The updates were hardware fused to prevent downgrading, of course.
My plan for 8k is to wait for mass market adoption before buying one and hooking it up to a DRM-box built by a company with foreseeable financial interest in "stimulating" display upgrades during a down quarter.
Lest we forget, Sony also sold PS3s with the advertised feature of Linux support, which was later removed in a firmware update. The same Sony which sold audio CDs with rootkits.
I miss the idealistic days when hackers held grudges. Don't buy Sony. They are the enemy.