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Every PlayStation 4 Gets HDR This Week With System Update 4.00 (cnet.com)
Sony announced today it is rolling out a new system updated -- dubbed Shingen -- to all the PlayStation 4 to bring High Dynamic Range (HDR) support. The new update, in addition, also brings Spotify integration, LAN data migration transfer, and tweaks to interface. From a CNET report: Other refinements to the system's interface include a redesigned content info screen -- the thing you see when pressing down after highlighting a game on your home screen. Similarly, the What's New screen has been updated with a new layout. 4.00 also adds support for HDR to all play PS4s, something Sony announced last week. This will be an option located in the Video Output Settings menu for existing PS4s and the new slim PS4, as well as the PS4 Pro. Those who get a Pro when it launches in November will also find support for several new features added in this update. As we learned recently, the system features 1080p streaming for Share Play and Remote Play (but only to PC/Mac and Xperia devices, not Vita), as well as 1080p/30 FPS streaming to Twitch and 1080p 30/60 FPS streaming to YouTube.
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They still can't get their ethernet port to actually work on LANs.
Not sure what you're talking about, mate. Mine works fine on a Gig-E switch. Between my PS4, PSTV, and two PS3's, that's a whole lot of PlayStation... They're all on Ethernet and they're all doing fine.
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That is correct, HDR is not possible via HDMI 1.4.
As for the original PS4... "NeoGAF forums user Jeff Rigby discovered last year that the Playstation 4’s custom HDMI controller is apparently HDMI 2.0 compatible"
Source: https://www.winbeta.org/news/s...
Previously having read what he had said, but unfortunately cannot find the post, the PS4 HDMI controller is higher bandwidth than HDMI 1.4. This would suggest that it may have been designed to be upgradable to a later version of HDMI than was available at the PS4 launch via a firmware upgrade.
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HDMI 2.0a was released on April 8, 2015 and added support for high dynamic range (HDR) video.
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Not sure what OP is posting about, but my PS3 won't play nicely with my Netgear wndr3700v4 router. The newer firmware in the router won't work with it, had to roll it back to an older version.
Ditto here. Been running my PS3 via ethernet for ages. Cable is always less flaky than Wifi.
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I'm with you. I really enjoy Sony hardware and really hate Sony company.
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Are there really HDR monitors or at least coming soon? I've missed this "development", so if somebody could explain. Mainly, is it just a gimmick, i.e. we start calling monitors with a very good color gamut and contrast "HDR", or is there really a significant leap in display technology and we are talking about something visibly different?
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I have a ps3 and ps4, and use the ps3 much more b/c the remote is 100000 times better for watching TV and video content via the internet. So, I kind of don't care about this upgrade... I'll still only use the PS4 for the 2 games I bought for it. :(
Makes all bright games look like pastel neon trip. I switched it off. Until SONY comes up with better algorithm for displaying HDR, I'll keep this function switched off for the remaining time.
Which is great, except the PS4s launched in 2013, which is well before April 8, 2015 and therefore use HDMI 1.4, which was what was available then.
So whatever they're doing, they can't be using HDMI 2.0a because the hardware predates it. So who knows what this "HDR" thing is but it can't be using HDMI 2.0.
Plus, it's Sony, so I suppose they had to add this feature so that they'd have SOMETHING to remove a couple of months down the line.
...giving the users FLAC support like they've been begging for for years? I'm sure the three people who asked for HDR are thrilled, though. Thanks, Sony.
Except they didn't use the 1.4 hardware, they used th 1.4 FIRMWARE. Which is in every article and the parent post (which you didn't read clearly). They purposefully overbuilt the HDMI port to allow for this in the future.
Anyone care to comment on how "HDR" will affect those of us who havent splashed out on 4k TV's yet? What is HDR ? Does HDR work on normal 1080p TV's ? Will it need to be supported by Games and Apps such as Netflix and Fallout 4? Nick
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HDMI 1.4 has the same pinout as HDMI 2.0 only the speed of the transceivers has changed. They could have used transceivers that where capable of much higher speed than HDMI 1.4. Transmitting at different speeds is also much easier than receiving as you do not need PLLs for clock recovery.
Still I wonder if the PS4 has a little FPGA in the HDMI output so they could change the output format, or if they had a custom ASIC that was programable to output different formats based on the full range (HDR) output of the graphics card.
Sony may have worked with the HDMI standards organisation to include HDR output format in HDMI2.0 in the way they already implemented it in the PS4.
Works fine for me - PS4 is attached to gigabit switch which it shares with my 360 and Raspberry Pi.
This depends on a lot of things.
1. Dolby HDR can work over HDMI 1.4, but most TVs support HDR10 which needs HDMI 2.
2. The biggest difference in versions of HDMI is the bandwidth available, and HDR10 really means 10-bit 4K video.
3. The HDMI controller in the PS4 is programmable. It may be possible that the firmware can update it to HDMI 2 in featureset (even if it can't do 4K modes)
4. It may be that 1080p HDR10 will work as long as the PS4 HDMI 1.4 port is connected to a TV that supports HDR10 on its HDMI 2 port.
I don't see any reason why HDR10 should be limited to 4K resolutions - that may be the headline resolution but there is nothing stopping the same HDR10 bitstream working on a 1080p signal, indeed it would be kind of stupid to limit that. However stupid things do happen.
HDR has been around for over a decade! Why the wait?
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Ok, that makes no sense, but it makes about as much sense as anything Sony will say.
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