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Digital Foundry touched on this neat piece of tech in their new look at The Last of Us Remastered on PS4 Pro due to downsampling being removed for 1080p display users from the game with this latest 1.08 patch.
Here is the link to the Digital Foundry article and some quoted details:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/d...-us-remastered-patch-108-for-ps4-pro-analysed
The HD Linker can be purchased here for $199:
https://www.hdfury.com/shop/videoprocessors/linker-4k60-444-600mhz/
If this trend of 4K downsampling not being an option for 1080p users continues I might be looking into this. Although I believe Sony should integrate an option in the system OS to allow users to turn it off and on for all games.
So far these are the games that don't downsample 4K to 1080p (please let me know if there are others)
-Dishonored 2
-The Last Guardian
-The Last of Us Remastered (Patch 1.08)
If you're a Pro owner with a 1080p display and like downsampling, I would recommend turning off Automatic Updates so you don't end up stuck with a patched version of the game that removed downsampling like The Last of Us has.
Here is the link to the Digital Foundry article and some quoted details:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/d...-us-remastered-patch-108-for-ps4-pro-analysed
Some players with 1080p displays have asked if there is any way to access PS4 Pro game modes only available on 4K screens - specifically down-sampling modes like those stripped from TLOUR. Yes there is, we've tested it and it works - but it is somewhat expensive. You'll need a device known as the HD Linker. It's designed to enable UHD functionality on 1080p screens but that's just one of its many functions.
Users connect the HD Linker between the Pro and a 1080p display and it's powered via USB. The Pro sees that it's attached to an HDCP 2.2-compliant display and the Linker effectively downscales the Pro's 4K output to full HD. We've tested it on a Pro attached to a Panasonic VT20 plasma display and it works just fine - 4K functionality is accessible from the video output settings menu as per normal, even though a full HD screen is attached.
As the Pro believes it is attached to an HDCP 2.2-compliant screen, you can also access non-gaming features too - such as the ultra HD encodes on Netflix, giving an almost Blu-ray-like presentation. At $199, it's effectively half the cost of the console itself so we mean it when we say that it's expensive - but it does do the job.
The HD Linker can be purchased here for $199:
https://www.hdfury.com/shop/videoprocessors/linker-4k60-444-600mhz/
If this trend of 4K downsampling not being an option for 1080p users continues I might be looking into this. Although I believe Sony should integrate an option in the system OS to allow users to turn it off and on for all games.
So far these are the games that don't downsample 4K to 1080p (please let me know if there are others)
-Dishonored 2
-The Last Guardian
-The Last of Us Remastered (Patch 1.08)
If you're a Pro owner with a 1080p display and like downsampling, I would recommend turning off Automatic Updates so you don't end up stuck with a patched version of the game that removed downsampling like The Last of Us has.