Re:Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
by jjoonathan on Friday May 22, 2020 @11:38PM
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And if they do it would be wise not to trust them, because dropping support for advertised features with hardware-fused irreversible software updates is SOP at this point. FFS, they even dropped support for my 4K screen in an update and I wound up playing the back half of Horizon Zero Dawn in 1080p as a result.
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Re:Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
by sandov on Saturday May 23, 2020 @02:14AM
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What? How and why did they drop support for your screen?
Re:Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
by jjoonathan on Saturday May 23, 2020 @08:28AM
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Yes, really. They up and dropped an entire HDMI mode used by "older" 4K displays.
A cynic would say they wanted to boost sales on newer displays, but it seems more likely that a bug of some kind came up in a driver (I was unaware of any problems, but that's hardly proof of anything) and they just decided it was easier to cut support of those displays than to fix the problem.
Support forums filled with complaints by the dozens of pages, but Sony didn't care, because why should they? I'm sure somebody did the calculation that said we weren't a big enough demographic to matter.