This is Bad news. The only way to see what real 4K looks like is with a HD-DVD player. Streamed 4K is very compressed and the sound is not even close to a physical disk. Sony could have saved the day but they did not put a HD-DVD player in the PS4 Pro. When Sony put a Blu Ray in the PS 3 it established the tech. Sony pretty much killed HD-DVD in the crib. Many will never know just how good 4K movies can look and sound. This sucks. Again quality is scarified over convenience and distribution costs.
the 4K market doesn’t exist yet.
Bad news indeed. Audio is an least as important to me as video— and that part of my setup dwarfs what I spent on my display. Physical media is needed because there just isn’t room in the pipe for audio in a stream. 4K video showed such promise and the demo discs I have are eye candy. But, just like the tease that was SACD, there isn’t enough content or interest.
I see it as you do. This is bad news.
HDDVD maxed out at 1080p when it was on the market. It never had the capacity for 4K video at the time, but, like BluRay, it was capable of adding layers to the disc (like BluRay)
Sony owns the patents on BluRay IIRC ... Samsung probably got sick of paying them + the world is moving to streaming.
I prefer having media I own, but I’m clearly in the minority these days :-). If I were emperor, we’d all be using cartridges with ROMs for everything since they’re cool looking :-).
Also, the PS4 Pro has an optical drive for UltraHD ... I don’t think Sony is going to kill off BluRay since they have an interest in seeing it exist.
4K only matters if you have a HUGE screen, and then it doesn’t matter all that much.
It’s mainly for people who always have to brag about everything they have being the best.
” This sucks. Again quality is scarified over convenience and distribution costs.”
You and exactly 103 other people thought this was important. Almost everyone is happy with standard Blu Ray and have no burning need for 4k and up.
No market. Almost no media.
Agreed on all counts.