General PS4 BD-A/V Playback Issues Thread

[Jpierro79]

Originally Posted by 42041

It should not be any different.
Barring microscopic differences due to chroma resampling algorithms and all that stuff, it either decodes accurately or it doesn't.

It's not that simple yes it's decoded but it's not a computer program your still dealing with other factors. What your saying is like saying a mp3 song on a 100 receiver can put out the sound quality of a 1000 receiver. It doesn't work that way. Every blu ray player does NOT decode exactly the same and for that very reason they can and will have different picture quality. If they were exactly the same they would all carry the exact same software. Decoding a blu ray has a particular format agreed BUT and that's a big but not all TVs and or blu ray players put out the same exact information. Hence different color formats refresh rates and shading and so on. Each company has there own software for color shading frame transition formats and many other processes. YES THE BASIC INFORMATION ON THE DISK IS THE SAME BUT AFTER ITS DECODED OFF THE DISC, THE SOFTWARE OF THE INDIVIDUAL PRODUCT TAKES OVER. If every blu ray was truly the same there would be no such thing as better quality blu ray. Your treating a blu ray like it's just a hard drive but it's soo much more than that. Please PEOPLE not all blu rays are the same. You can have two identical computers but with different software and they will never perform the same or you can have two computers with the same software but different hardware and even almost identical specs but the one with better hardware functions better.

NOW ABOUT HDMI CABLES don't waste your money on these. It's a digital signal it either makes it there or not. BUT I don't recommend the cheapest either but that's for longevity. Don't go burning money on HDMI cables it will NOT improve the picture