What’s up with PS4’s surprise firmware update? Is 4K around the corner?

HDR is coming to <em>every</em> PS4, and that means we now know more about its HDMI controller.

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Ninhalem[/url]":36mjc6in]What do you mean licensing costs?! Isn't Blu-Ray a Sony IP? Why would they have licensing costs?

You have to pay the One-Blue pool which is not just Sony but Philips, Pioneer, Panasonic etc who have some patent claim on some part of the Blu-ray disc tech.

Then there may be additional MPEG-LA licensing required too.

What's stopping Sony from pushing the buck onto consumers here with a paid for from the Playstation store solution then? I really don't get why they'd over engineer here if they're not going to make full use of it.