{"id":4430,"date":"2019-10-13T16:25:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T06:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/?p=4430"},"modified":"2019-10-13T16:25:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T06:25:24","slug":"weekly-news-roundup-october-13-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/2019\/10\/13\/weekly-news-roundup-october-13-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly News Roundup (October 13, 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Okay. So &#8220;weekly&#8221; news roundup has somehow turned into a &#8220;monthly&#8221; one, and that, I can assure you, is not a permanent change. However, this doesn&#8217;t mean I haven&#8217;t been busy making 4K <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CBDumK4lPNc\">trailers<\/a>, some Star Wars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4uqdaPVRwqI\">stuff<\/a>, and even this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zRAvN5PQPPY\">music video<\/a> for &#8216;Joker&#8217; (highly recommended). As always, check our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddigest\">Twitter feed<\/a> for updates, happenings, and going-ons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zRAvN5PQPPY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And yes, I promise I will start writing a bit more news (a bit more as in more than nothing), which is why I&#8217;m here today. But don&#8217;t get your hopes up, there&#8217;s only one thing to talk about this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gaming.gif\" alt=\"Gaming\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After months of no news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/news-64911-New-PS5-Details-4K-Blu-ray-Support-New-DualShock-Features-Hardware-Ray-Tracing.html\">we suddenly have lots of it<\/a> about Sony&#8217;s next game console, unofficially dubbed the PS5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First of all, it now has an official name: PS5. Not much of a surprise there. Slightly surprising, given the lack of it on any incarnations of the PS4, is the including of 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray playback. Finally, I hear you say. And you&#8217;d be right, because Sony gambled that 4K discs wouldn&#8217;t take off and they were wrong. While 4K UHD Blu-ray hasn&#8217;t replaced standard Blu-ray, but it&#8217;s built itself a nice niche and sales have been relatively strong for such a new format. 4K streaming has been doing well too, but it seems most people still prefer to get 4K from discs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ps4_controller-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of two PS4 controllers\" class=\"wp-image-4387\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ps4_controller-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ps4_controller-250x167.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ps4_controller-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ps4_controller.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>More details about the PS5 has been released by Sony<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem is that high-quality 4K takes a long time to download, or a very fast connection to stream. And I&#8217;m not even counting Netflix 4K as high-quality 4K, because compared to 4K discs and on a large high-quality screen, you can easily see the difference (same with YouTube &#8211; the 4K trailers I upload are nowhere near as nice when played back there, compared to my original MKV versions &#8211; you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/movies\/index.php\">download<\/a> some of these 4K trailers for yourself and compare). The same problem is happening with games that are getting bigger and bigger, which is why Sony has opted to include a BD-XL drive in the PS5 that will allow game developers to put more on a single disc (100GB vs 50GB). Gamers can still download games, but Sony is introducing a new feature where they only need to download a part of the game to get started, with other parts downloading when needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also announced are some important changes to the new DualShock controller for the PS5 (DualShock 5?), including haptic feedback, haptic trigger buttons and, finally, a USB-C charging port.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sony also confirmed that ray-tracing support will be in hardware form as opposed to software. Interesting ammunition for the next console wars (assuming the next Xbox doesn&#8217;t also do hardware ray-tracing), and for those that are completely invested in gaming graphics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>======<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s it for the week. Hopefully, there will be more news next week. For Star Wars geeks like myself, you might be interested to know that there&#8217;s a good chance the new Rise of Skywalker trailer might be coming on Monday during Monday Night Football. If not this Monday, then the next one for sure. Excited!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay. So &#8220;weekly&#8221; news roundup has somehow turned into a &#8220;monthly&#8221; one, and that, I can assure you, is not a permanent change. However, this doesn&#8217;t mean I haven&#8217;t been busy making 4K trailers, some Star Wars stuff, and even this music video for &#8216;Joker&#8217; (highly recommended). 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