I cannot interpret what Yoshida said in any way other than I already mentioned. It seems incredibly clear-cut to me.
FWIW, I would never write something as mangled as "Ito was speaking hypothetically NOT about a possible future hardware revision that can play some type of new media or the PS4 roadmap." I'd like to think that I'm a better writer than that. That's so incoherent that I don't even know what you're trying to convey.
Just to be clear, I hope you're right. I would love to see the PS4 support Ultra HD Blu-ray and have these players in front of as many eyeballs as possible. It's irresponsible for you to repeatedly pass off speculation as fact, though, and your methods of arriving at some of these conclusions is spurious at best.
To put this into perspective:
1)
Mocoworm posted 2/2015 on the Forbes article stating the first version of the PS4 & XB1 wouldn't support UHD but Netflix was told the second version would at the end of 2015.
2) In a timely manner I cited and posted it was wrong.
3) Months later after a NDA expired
Microsoft and AMD announced the XB1 would support HEVC encoding for LOW LATENCY game streaming from XB1 to AMD PCs and several early articles from Microsoft stating they wanted both HEVC encoding and decoding in the XB1 posted on BY3d. I reposted them in that same Mocoworm thread because the major theme of the Forbes article was no HEVC support and I got banned for "bumping a thread", my first ever.
Posted on line at the same time but not found till later was
10 bit HEVC support by Microsoft in a coming XB1 firmware update. 10 bit HEVC is what is needed for UHD Blu-ray.
4) During the ban I researched the subject. After the ban expired I posted
the PS4 will support UHD Blu-ray. Prior to that post I have been citing on
Hardware for media support in the PS4 and XB1 and on
Media plans from Microsoft and Sony papers found on-line.
These papers and cites inform about a media plan that has been in the works since before 2006. Middle of 2011 Sony announced they would be using Playready in all their connected platforms and Microsoft a week later registered the domain name Microsoft-Sony.com. This was about the coming Playready ecosystem = Vidipath.
So Adam, am I less professional than the Forbes author who took a Netflix rumor from the Huffington Post and stated the PS4 and XB1 first version wouldn't support UHD and the second would. He did this with only a cite of the Huffing post which was relaying an interview with a Netflix employee who heard from a Sony employee that the
PS4 would support UHD by the end of 2015 and assumed it meant Hardware not Firmware update.
This (UHD Blu-ray) as you pointed out for other platforms, correcting my posts because I was relying on older news, is also likely being delayed to 2016. Is this rumor I took to be a Firmware not hardware update wrong too?
So when I cite the threads I started with hundreds of cites "kinda" proving the hardware supporting Media in the PS4, showing what is required by UHD and pointing out that both from a hardware breakdown and cites showing the PS4 HDMI to support VR support s 60, 90 and 120 Hz, is extremely programmable so it does not have a HDMI 1.4 chip and HDCP takes place in Southbridge as required by the Motion picture association. Further I cited Sony Passage PDFs to the FCC DSTAC showing the PS4 supporting a Downloadable security Scheme which the same FCC Committee says must have a TEE and HDCP 2.2.
Androvsky and I have a past in the PS3 browser thread and he is the more reserved and cautious yet even he is 100% convinced that the PS4 will support UHD. You didn't jump on him and calls him irresponsible. Is it because I cite? Androvsky actually took the time to look into the Sony Javascript engine webkit disclosures posted Nov 2010,
No one else besides me did this and posted in that thread.
What is missing on NeoGAF is more people like you but with a little more time to read TECHNICAL cites and discuss what they mean. I'm 64 do have a Electrical engineering background but used a Slide ruler and punch cards in College. You can easily get tunnel vision in your field unless you READ and attempt to understand what's coming and get an Idea of what that means for Consumer Electronics.
I have been playing catchup since 2010 and as we get closer to this big CE revolution that has been delayed and delayed, more articles and papers fill in the blanks. It's now nearly a fully assembled puzzle and I have become more definite in my language. I have done the homework a professional should do. But I am not a professional so I feel a little freedom to speculate based on these papers.
I'm sure you have followed the Blu-ray forum posts discussing the HEVC codec and I find over and over that professional authors assume a ASIC as a dedicated HEVC hardware codec was needed for HEVC and anything manufactured before this was available (2015) can't support UHD. This was part of the Forbes article. The XB1 and PS4 have Xtensa DPU processors as hardware accelerators for software Codecs. The XB1 has 10 bit HEVC codec support with a Firmware update but it and the PS4, according to "professiona authors", can't have 10 bit HEVC because they were manufactured too early. This is the state of Professional Authors who should be held to a higher standard.
So we are to assume from the Ito quotes that the PS4 won't have UHD IPTV (Netflix) and UHD Blu-ray but the XB1 will? See how stupid this is....
