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While there’s still little known about Sony’s efforts to pioneer the first 4K movie download service, one thing we can say almost definitely now is that the service will in fact be compatible with its (supposedly) upcoming PS4. In an interview with The Verge, Sony President and COO Phil Molyneux almost sort of definitely confirmed that the service would be compatible with the ethereal console by promising that we “will not be disappointed.” Oh, and by the way, a typical 4K movie download will chew up more than 100 GB of bandwidth.
So when the PS4 actually does take shape, and if Sony’s service actually is compatible, there’s still the small problem of these downloads being wholly impractical for the average user, especially in the age of data caps. Apparently Molyneux is looking on the bright side of things, as he’s called these excruciatingly long download times “a journey.” There is some relatively legitimate good news, though, as Sony announced plans to roll out a lot more movies for the service in time for summer. And you should have them downloaded and ready to watch just in time for fall. [The Verge]
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Sorry to be pedantic, but it won’t chew up >100 GB of bandwidth. It will chew up >100 GB of your data allowance, but it will chew up between 20 and 40 Mbps. (Current estimates for 4k streaming. Bandwidth is a measure of bitrate, not a measure of data usage.)
So sorry for being ‘that guy’. <3 you Giz!
Because you were nice about it, I’m not going to mention the typo in your comment. In fact, I might even fix it for you
I recently found an interview with you online, and I don’t think I’ve had the chance to thank you for mentioning the Ninite installer in the interview – I hadn’t heard of it before, and it has saved me many hours. (Don’t tell Kat, but your military articles are the best) Thank you!
Jeez, how did you stumble across that?! But yeah, Ninite was, I think, the best piece of software I’ve ever found — rather than having to babysit a new test laptop through hours of installs, I just whack a Ninite installer on and leave it to churn
And thanks, I do have a soft spot for military stuff!
Also, go to bed.
Uni student! Bed is not an option for me! Don’t you have to do, you know, real work?
He’s too busy waiting for the next 5 seconds of his “streaming” 4k movie to buffer
Real work? Nah, according to commenters, we don’t work, we just sit around all day, only occasionally putting finger to keyboard when a big corporation pays us to
We are going to need 4K TV’s first, 80″ minimal for any benefit.
Depends on how close you sit. Our sons (2 and 4yo) stand 2ft from our 55-incher – though I doubt they’ll benefit from Spongebob Square Pants in 4K either!
True that! It would be good to have 50 inch 4K, would work well as an external monitor, text would look good at any readable size.
Spongebob in 4K would be epic.
I don’t thing you can quantify this service right now as there are tech innovations such as vector based codecs that will radically shrink data to display 4k movies. Also, 4K TV screens look amazing so the naysayers can eat my pixels
How would that work for film?
Check out this article over on RedShark. http://tiny.cc/94x9sw
Vector based images have always been small, file size wise.
It won’t use ~100GB of data, on Blu-ray it would be up to 120GB but for download it would be considerably less. A current average 2D 1080p Blu-ray movie may be around 38GB, while 1080p movie downloads are around 5-6GB (+/-1GB), that’s ~15%. It’s highly likely that 4K movie downloads would follow suit, making a 4K movie download up to ~18GB. Of course this still a lot of data.