Not As Good As Microsoft Did It (Day 2491 - 9/19/16)

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People

 * Stephen

Locations

 * Stephen and Mal's apartment

Summary
The PlayStation 4 has an inefficient system of controlling HDCP. HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) is a form of digital copy protection that prevents the recording of copyrighted video. The feature needs to be turned off when Stephen records game like Uncharted 4: A Thief's End for StephenPlays, but has to be switched on again in order to watch films and TV shows on Blu-ray.

What's frustrating about this is that the Xbox One does this automatically - there are no menus involved when switching between game discs and film discs. This would probably be an easy thing to alter in a PlayStation 4 patch, but as of now that patch has not been released.