Two new PS4 UHD Media capable consoles Holiday 2018

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Efficientgaming.EU was just updated with changes in Console definitions and multiple Media power caps to reflect the following, prior to this change it just had a Tier 4 listing @ 70 watts;

Any AMD GPU from Vega and later has Infinity Fabric and can support UHD Blu-ray security levels using the GPU so I expect 2018 PS4s will have UHD Blu-ray support and possibly digital bridge support as well. Sony has a UHD Blu-ray BDA license for PCs and as we know Sony PS4s are fixed hardware (Console/Embedded) PC hardware designs.

Originally Posted by efficientgaming.eu

 UHD media capable:
a. UHD media capable Console: Game Consoles having potential of rendering
video output with resolutions greater or equal to 4K (3840 pixels x 2160 lines)
in addition to capability defined for High Definition Console in media mode
only.

Tier 4 Jan 2019 60 watts for UHD Media.

 UHD gaming capable:
“Game Consoles having potential of rendering video output with
resolutions greater or equal to 4K (3840 pixels x 2160 lines) in addition to
capability defined for High Definition Console in media and gaming mode”

Tier 4 Jan 2019 70 watts for HD media and 110 watts for UHD media

PS4 Pro uses the GPU for codecs and does not have the DRM security level for UHD Blu-ray It complies with Tier 3 and 70 watts in Media mode. XB1 and Nintendo Switch are also not Tier 4.

Tier 4 now has a UHD Media Console Power Cap of 60 watts
Tier 4 now has a UHD Gaming console with a power cap of 70 watts for HD media and 110 watts for 4K media.

The Tier 4 power cap is Sony calculating power use based on the Console's chipset Sony is releasing in 2018 and published to efficientgaming.eu as a Voluntary effort to comply with best efforts to reduce the power used by the console(s). In the past they have been 100% accurate and can be used to predict a coming console release date and relative performance.

This confirms there are two separate definitions/consoles. The PS4 Pro has a higher than 60 watts Media mode.

Holiday 2018 something greater than PS4 Pro with UHD media DRM
2019 UHD Gaming capable console

This makes sense of the several conflicting rumors.