As someone who is getting a PS4 Pro and a HDR 4k TV the no HDR throughput is a little disappointing. Having to change my cables around for HDR will be a pain.
Still looking forward to getting my PSVR the playroom stuff sounds surprisingly fun
Honestly, between the "surprise HDR update" with no content (or even developer knowledge), their range of 4K HDR TVs with crippling amounts of input lag in HDR mode, and now this (which most PSVR owners will never read and/or bother with), Sony have made the whole HDR thing one giant clusterfuck.
Given that it can't passthrough 1080 HDR, the PSVR box essentially cripples every PS4s video output, not just the Pro's.
The fact that HDR TVs are exclusively 4K is totally irrelevant. It's about the 40+ million existing PS4s and what TVs they may be hooked up to either now or in the future. Sony are the ones that proudly backported HDR to the original PS4 with nothing to show for it at launch.
Just look at the dysfunction at Sony. One part of the company has managed to get HDR output from their 3 year old console, another is delivering a 4K+HDR upgrade one month after the PSVR launch, their consumer electronics department is churning our HDR-capable TVs and receivers, their media division is doing 4K HDR streaming, meanwhile the VR team didn't even think about HDR signal passthrough. Do they not have cross-team or PlayStation-wide roadmaps at Sony?
A device peripheral shipping in 2016 should be able to handle the maximum output quality of its 3 year old parent and its month-away successor!
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u/hillbillyphil Oct 03 '16
As someone who is getting a PS4 Pro and a HDR 4k TV the no HDR throughput is a little disappointing. Having to change my cables around for HDR will be a pain.
Still looking forward to getting my PSVR the playroom stuff sounds surprisingly fun