Also kind of goes to show where the minds are at for MS. They just wanted to be releasing around the time of PS4 with their Kinect and DRM junk.... no thought on the future of gaming or anything. Well, aside from DirectX 12 and the "powuh uv duh cLoudZ".

Not really. You're thinking of some other HDR term.

@darthv72

I was interested in the claim you made about PC's not needing HDR monitors so I had a little search and can find nothing.

I did find articles stating that Battlefield 1 would be the first PC HDR game available but you do need a HDR monitor.

I suspect it wasn't a standard HDR setting you came across but the devs own take on HDR. The colour gamut required for HDR protocols cannot be replicated on a standard monitor.

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"sony says the base model will support HDR but there has to be some sort of trade off because the PS4 was initially built in 2013 and HDR supported HDMI ports didnt release until some time in 2015"

Sony is one of the 7 companies that founded the HDMI consortium, when the PS4 was released, the final specifications for HDMI2.0a and HDCP2.2 were not finalised yet but they had been working on them for a few years already. They knew what the hardware needed to be capable of to use 10 bit colours instead of the regular 8 bit, what it needed to support at least to be capable of supporting HDR. They made sure that the HDMI chip inside was capable of it, it only needed a firmware upgrade to support the appropriate (finalised) protocols.

In theory the HDMI chip inside the PS4 can handle HDMI2.0a and HDCP2.2 but it has to be certified before use in devices due to the HDCP copy protection system, since it was not possible to do that when the PS4 released it is not allowed to fully support it. It can, however, support the HDR standard as that has nothing to do whatsoever with copy protection.

Also consider that HDMI normally isn't capable of supporting 120hz output, but the PS4 is actually doing that when hooked up to PSVR. The biggest issue in supporting HDR is having the bandwidth available which HDMI 1.4 normally doesn't have, but it also doesn't have the bandwidth available to use 120 frames per second....

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If I would make a comparison about what Sony did with HDR on the PS4 it would be this:
- they used inside knowledge of how the standards and protocols worked before they were finalised and used that knowledge to be able to support it on the PS4 while other companies like MS would need to use the standards that were officially already available
- it's like when MS uses inside knowledge of their own OS to write better performing software like they did with Internet Explorer back in the day...

I hope they can fix this ugly mess with a firmware or patch... so annoying having to keep switching HDMI just to play VR or something new like FF15 in HDR.... SMH.... I thought Sony was better then this...

Ok, I'm a bit confused here especially judging from your agrees. Please point me out to any TVs or displays in 1080p that has HDR. Are any of the VR headsets in 4k? Once again, people want everything for nothing. Just imagine the cost of these VR headsets if it had 4k screens. I'm so confused how some can just spread misinformation like it's facts. But hey, if you have a solution to do so and keep the same price point then you should contact Sony. You would be hired instantly.