General PS4 BD-A/V Playback Issues Thread

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Originally Posted by Derb

Gonna skip hands on BD review of PS4 until more system updates arrive.

The drive itself could get a firmware. I remember older BD players receiving these types of updates. Or was that HD-DvD?

I bet my PQ on Oppo 103 is better anyway. The audio sure is.

As someone who also has an Oppo 103 (plus a PS3 and a PS4), I concur. To me, the Oppo PQ and audio quality is superior. That said, the PS3 and PS4 are extremely versatile Blu-ray players and will satisfy the needs of most non audio and non videophile enthusiasts just fine.

I did a couple of brief A-B comparisons between the PS3 and the PS4 over the weekend, but I did not see any obvious difference in picture quality. I won't say that both players are identical since I didn't do a critical comparison, but to the naked eye, they are close enough that whatever differences there may be, I didn't detect them.

On the audio front, there is at least one documented difference between the PS3 and the PS4, but I am not presently set up to personally confirm. According to a November 15th news release from DTS, the PS4 is the first Blu-ray player to get their new DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 decoder. Although I have a Denon-AVR 3313CI, I never bothered going the 7.1 route with it, so I can't say for sure how much of a difference the new decoder will make.

The only other thing worth mentioning from my personal comparison is that the PS3 seems to load Blu-ray movies noticeably faster than the PS4. Based on the number of tweaks and performance improvements Sony made with firmware updates on the PS3 over the years, I'm fairly sure faster loading times will come to the PS4 over time.