4K on PS4 and Xbox One?

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Originally Posted by Derb

Sony will likely pull the plug on PS3 & it's servers this year.

Sony also has nothing to gain by adding 4K support. They need to make money, not lose money. The PS division is sadly the most profitable for the company. Had they remained the dominate force with all other electronics they make, they'd likely be singing a different tune now with regard to 4K but the competition with Sammy & company gave them a right hook to the face.

Don't think so. The PS3 apps haven't changed since about 2012. Netflix for instance has the DRM as part of the app. That is soon not going to be allowed. DRM has to be embedded and Sony started on this road in 2011 and 11/2014 advertised a software job to implement Playready embedded in the PS3, PS4 and Vita. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=929377

Then you have the PDF Sony sent to the FCC a few months ago showing a PS3 Vidipath streaming from a Cable TV DVR. Vidipath requires embedded Playready.

For the PS3 a PDF on Passage was just released at the latest FCC DSTAC (Downloadable Security Technical Advisory Committee) meeting. Page 12 has a chart showing a PS3 being used as a Vidipath STB.

Top path is RVU which the PS3 already supports.
Direct Attach End to End (center path) which is all IPTV direct from a cable modem . The future but Cable can't currently support more than a small percentage of their customers going all IPTV.
Sony is definitely supporting Vidipath, page 12 bottom path (Traditional Cable TV with the DLNA CVP2 FCC mandate where a DVR with tuners converts a RF channel to IPTV streams )

Sony want's those millions and millions of PS3s as media STBs that have A Sony store and can support Playstation Vue. They are grandfathered in as far as IPTV power levels (80 watts) but I think a refresh has to support state of the art IPTV levels of about 20 watts or less which the PS4 is supposed to do when it gets the Media Firmware updates ( Full screen video all done in Southbridge with the AMD APU off).