CrunchyFrog said:
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Though i understand you likely meant this in jest, I still direct this at anyone who actually does believe in such a foolish notion. Hell 3D wont even be standard still.
In any case this means absolute bunk, as all this is is a glorified still image viewer, not video. And unless you have yourself a fantastic projector or a consumer 4k tv from 6 years into the future, it's worthless.
Playview allows 4k to be usable on a lower resolution monitor just like the PS3 picture viewer does for even higher resolutions with zooming.
If you read the posts, Playview is a text, music, picture and movie viewer. Demos have shown text, pictures and movies (3-D for both possible) embedded in the electronic document.
What sparked the discussion is the Pulp Magazine being released at 4K by 2K with pictures and text. An assumption that this is also video at 4K sparked the discussion on support for 4K.
It's doable but I doubt that they are currently supporting 4k video. The bandwidth for supporting 3-D is 2x 1080P@24hz and 4k is twice 3-D after it's decoded and ready for display. On the blu-ray disk for instance, 3-D requires 50% more storage space than 1080P and 4K requires something less than 400% more after compression and at least a 4X drive speed.
Edit: h.265, a codec that requires more powerful hardware can allow nearly twice the compression of h.264. This may allow 2X blu-ray drives to support 4K and dual layer to have enough space to store a 4k blu-ray movie.
In the 2010 demo at CEDEC it was mentioned that Sony has an engine to process the media to make the Playview file. Part of that process is probably encryption for DRM.
That playview technology is being and will be used in Sony games and the assumption that Sony will want Playview media on as many platforms as possible makes me believe that it is using webkit support libraries for much of it's functionality. Webkit with the proper support can display 3-D and 4K as that is only a limitation of the platform and player. Google Chrome, a webkit browser, is demoing 3-D video and higher resolution YouTube video. So it's possible for Playview to support 4K video, Sony may do so eventually.
Edit: Playmemories Studio for the PS3 supports
Zooming and Panning for
Video and pictures. This further supports both Playview media and Video from other sources in 4K format being downscaled on the PS3 with Zooming and panning ability.