I'm wondering if Vinny/Drew could comment on plans for improving archive capture to 1080p for PS4/XB1 captures, at least for Quicklooks anyway? I know live streaming is going to be limited to 720p currently, but hopefully it's possible to run the archives at 1080p. And yeah, I know 1080p/60 is a lot of data... probably would need to be at least 10mbps.
I think I heard mention a while ago that 1080p was going to be difficult/expensive and possibly not supported by their current hardware setup, but I don't think I've heard anything recently. I know they capture 720p/60 today using component video and I wonder how well analog 720p is going to show off next-gen quality... For example are the consoles configured to output only 720p natively or is it being downconverted by the capture hardware? What sort of quality loss might this cause? Any issues with framerate (or lack thereof) are going to be questionable if they aren't running the consoles at the highest settings. I assume most consumers will be running at 1080p.
Anyway I'm sure they've thought a lot more about this than I have, so I hope we can hear about future plans for this stuff. :)
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