Sony are set to release a 4K video service which will work alongside the PS4: the first of its kind.
[drop2]The 4K format, also known as Ultra-HD, carries a resolution of 3,840 x 2,160 pixels.Sony Electronics President Phil Molyneux told The Verge that despite the console’s ability to output this resolution, PS4 games will not be equipped to display in it.
The key issue with the format, however, is that downloads could exceed 100 Gb.
While Sony are touting the ability to download items in the background or overnight, that size of file is going to put a huge strain on the majority of average UK-based internet packages.
If this is the future of movie and media display formats, is our internet structure and storage medium actually prepared for it?
Source: Verge
teflon
Sure, 100GB for a BDXL encode which when you have four times the number of pixels, and many 1080p BD encodes hit 50GB, is rather impressive.
However, we’ve seen 720p downloads range from 3-4GB from download services, with 1080p only 1-2GB larger thanks to better use of newer codecs and compression techniques.
So sure, we could see 100GB for 4K, or, y’know… 20GB if they compress it more…
xdarkmagician
I’d be happy if Sony just started selling/renting 1080 instead of 720 for their HD PSN movies for PS3.
Broonba
As I’m with “We don’t throttle anybody’s connection” BT (Lying bastards, as everytime I download stuff of the Store…demo’s PSN games etc, I get throttled faster than a turkey at Bernard Manning’s farm) I’d have to spend about a week and a half to download 100GB files