High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging technology is to be supported on all PlayStation 4 consoles, not just the new PS4 Pro, Sony has announced.
HDR enables the “reproduction of brightness and darkness while realising a much wider range of colours,” says Sony. “Users who own an HDR-compatible TV will be able to enjoy supported games and other entertainment content with visuals that are more realistic, strikingly vivid and truer to the way the human eye sees the real world”.
A system update will be released next week to add HDR functionality to all PS4 consoles.
What’s not clear is how exactly this will work in the real world, and how the 1080p PS4 will work with the 4K tech.
HDR gaming seems a certainty, though services such as Netflix with HDR are more up in the air. The picture should become clearer in the coming weeks.
