Will Sony support 4K iPlayer and HLG? - Sony

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Any ideas @Anonymous? Prompted by announcment from BBC here. Currently only Panasonic can view 4K clips of Planet Earth II.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38242187

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Hi there

To be honest, its far too early to know yet. According to :

http://flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1481200051

"Other TV manufacturers such as LG, Sony and Samsung have demonstrated HLG support on 2016 TVs at trade shows but not announced any concrete plans to add it via firmware."

I just hope it doesnt go the same way as the YouTube VP9-P2 (HLG):

https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/android-tv/youtube-hdr-finally/m-p/2251169

Cheers

Given how much Sony (along with other manufacturers to be fair) have been pushing HDR sets for the last year or so, if HLG becomes the broadcast standard system and they don't update current models to support it, there'll be a riot.

For some reason, we all seemed to have missed this:

https://sony-eur-eu-en-web--eur.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/136743/

Take from:

http://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1486378954

Read this article, might be of interest:

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/140161-sony-hybrid-log-gamma-hdr-update-coming-to-all-4k-hdr-tvs

So we have had the HLG firmware for sometime and still no 4K BBC iPlayer support. Hmmmm.

Indeed. Sony 4k tvs have had the HLG capability for some time and yet only a tiny amount of 2017 Sony tv's can play 4k on the iPlayer. Um. Why?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/latest-news/blue-planet-II-uhd

Seems to be limited to the 2017 models..which is irritating as i have a 2016 model.

Hopefully there isn't some technical reason behind that which is becoming a more common excuse.

It seems Sony drop support for TVs very quickly. I fully expect our 2017 models to get much limited support going forward.