Sony reveals PlayStation 5 details

Re:Sony reveals PlayStation 5 details by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @06:04PM (#19677763)

Yeah, I can't see a way to fake Dolby Vision - it's pretty obvious when you're getting the extra dynamic range from the image - I'm surprised by how much more apparent it is than 4k. I can see resolution fakery, but that's why I asked if they thought it was possible to scale down the 4k Dolby Vision to 1080p Dolby Vision

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Re:Sony reveals PlayStation 5 details by baddox on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @06:59PM (#19678064)

I mean, you can definitely fake Dolby Vision. The Apple TV 4K has an option to always output Dolby Vision, and they do their own tone mapping to output normal HDR or SDR content in Dolby Vision. I don't use this feature, and it had pretty terrible reviews at launch (although I heard they have improved it).

But yeah, I think the actual presence of additional dynamic range is pretty noticeable for most well-produced content.

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Re:Sony reveals PlayStation 5 details by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @09:32AM (#19682356)

Netflix could fake Dolby Vision by dumping MORE data in than was in the original stream - that seems like a wasteful way to cut corners.

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