topic Re: Will Sony support 4K iPlayer and HLG? in Android TV

Will Sony support 4K iPlayer and HLG?

Risc0n — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 21:53:53 GMT

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

Re: Will Sony support 4K iPlayer and HLG?

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 10:30:11 GMT

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

Re: Will Sony support 4K iPlayer and HLG?

TobyCG — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 17:22:47 GMT

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.

Re: Will Sony support 4K iPlayer and HLG?

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 19:31:11 GMT

@Risc0n

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/

Re: Will Sony support 4K iPlayer and HLG?

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 02:50:06 GMT

Take from:

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

Re: Will Sony support 4K iPlayer and HLG?

SpookyZeus — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:45:52 GMT

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

Re: Will Sony support 4K iPlayer and HLG?

stormyuk — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 18:55:44 GMT

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

Re: Will Sony support 4K iPlayer and HLG?

Garymjh — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 07:49:33 GMT

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

Re: Will Sony support 4K iPlayer and HLG?

Shkity — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 10:09:27 GMT

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.

Re: Will Sony support 4K iPlayer and HLG?

stormyuk — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 10:19:41 GMT

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

Re: Will Sony support 4K iPlayer and HLG?

Endless.Riffing — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 09:36:14 GMT

Last time I bought a Sony connected TV I vowed I'd never do it again. Was suckered into Android TV and UHD Blu-Ray neither of which supports iplayer 4K. Never, ever buying Sony again

Re: Will Sony support 4K iPlayer and HLG?

Shkity — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 10:43:38 GMT

I've made a similair promise

Re: Will Sony support 4K iPlayer and HLG?

MiteBe — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:18:25 GMT

It would be nice if Sony could comment on the reason why. Then we'd know if there's any hope of seeing it.

Re: Will Sony support 4K iPlayer and HLG?

jamesdunfordT1 — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:57:21 GMT

Also have a 2016 sony 49” And would like to know if i can stream blue planet 2 in HLG or HDR? Will there be a firm ware update? or do i need to change settings? My internet is good, The model of my telly is KD 49XD8305 Any help would be great.

Cheers

Re: Will Sony support 4K iPlayer and HLG?

stormyuk — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:59:40 GMT

@jamesdunfordT1 wrote:
Also have a 2016 sony 49” And would like to know if i can stream blue planet 2 in HLG or HDR? Will there be a firm ware update? or do i need to change settings? My internet is good, The model of my telly is KD 49XD8305 Any help would be great.

Currently none of the Sony Android TVs support Blue Planet / BBC iPlayer 4k. Only Sony know the answer to if we will ever get support, and they are not saying. The best we got on twitter was it was "under investigation".

Edit: There was actually a twitter post yesterday in response to a question from an XE80 owner asking about it which suggested it would be supported in a future firmware update although no dates given.

https://twitter.com/SonyUK/status/950822308846952448

Re: Will Sony support 4K iPlayer and HLG?

jamesdunfordT1 — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:47:40 GMT

Sounds good, many thanks for the info and reply, It’s a sod because BBC Iplayer only has blue planet 2 in HLG for a limited time.

Must be an update soon because i can choose HLG on the HDMI picture settings and my netflix plays 4K HDR fine.

Glad i’m not the only one asking about a firmware update. Keep me posted!

Many Thanks.

Re: Will Sony support 4K iPlayer and HLG?

stormyuk — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:15:30 GMT

Yeh, unfortunately I very much doubt its going to be in time for Blue Planet vanishing from iPlayer.

Re: Will Sony support 4K iPlayer and HLG?

Garymjh — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:34:47 GMT

"Currently none of the Sony Android TVs support Blue Planet / BBC iPlayer 4k. "

According to the BBC about 40 Sony tv's are compatible
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/latest-news/blue-planet-II-uhd

Re: Will Sony support 4K iPlayer and HLG?

stormyuk — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:15:44 GMT

@Garymjh wrote:

"Currently none of the Sony Android TVs support Blue Planet / BBC iPlayer 4k. "

According to the BBC about 40 Sony tv's are compatible
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/latest-news/blue-planet-II-uhd

As I said none of the Sony Android TVs are supported, none of those TVs run Android.

Re: Will Sony support 4K iPlayer and HLG?

jamesdunfordT1 — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 10:11:27 GMT

Bang goes watching bottle nose dolphins in HLG.. So is Android the issue here? What does it even do?

I do hope they update the firmware, As my telly is not even 18 months old.

Come on Sony sort it out!

Peace