4K on PS4 and Xbox One?

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Originally Posted by Derb

So how do you market 2 entirely different PS4's to 1 consumer?

Jeff is insistent that the current hardware model can play UHD BD discs. There is nothing you or anyone can say to convince him otherwise.

I mean, when the person responsible for the hardware in the PS4 said UHD BD support isn't possible -- and who on the planet is in a greater position of authority to answer the question than that? -- Jeff insists that Masayasu Ito either doesn't know what he's talking about or is lying to adhere to an NDA.

Perhaps it is technically possible, and maybe Sony will come up with a workaround that'll allow playback of UHD BD discs on the existing PS4. More remarkable things have certainly happened. Still, the word from literally the most authoritative person at Sony about this is "no", and the last update from Microsoft about supporting UHD BD dates back more than two years before the format spec was finalized. The sensible thing would be to assume the answer remains "no" until someone at Sony and/or Microsoft says it'll be "yes", and no blathering about ATSC 3, ooVoo, HTML5 <video>, Xtensa, etc. will change that.